Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either that , or he had only yesterday decided to bow to fashion and grow a beard . |
| 2 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 4 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 5 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 6 | and I 've only just started , still got two people outstanding so I 've got that forty pound and I put that into the building society and use that forty pounds for months see so it kind of like saved it for me , I 've managed , had to do without it |
| 7 | and I 've only just finished our , our Christmas er bun loaf sort of thing , you know |
| 8 | And I 've only ever trusted one person completely in my life . |
| 9 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 10 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 11 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
| 12 | Ali came about two I suppose and she 's only just gone . |
| 13 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 14 | we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap . |
| 15 | And we 've only just bought it ! |
| 16 | he says for cost price , our Kim says well it were a lot of money that bed and we 've only just got it |
| 17 | For example , the bend in the lower spine of humans which is responsible for so many back pains exists because our ancestors were quadrupeds and we have only recently started standing upright . |
| 18 | Lizzy had adored her father and he had only ever let her down . |
| 19 | At the cinema , under cover of darkness , he put his arm around her tentatively , but was always ready for rejection , and he had only twice kissed her . |
| 20 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 21 | ‘ I know it 's crazy , but I 've only just begun to realise how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’ |
| 22 | But I 've only just gone up anyway . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry — it 's awful , I know , but I 've only just heard and — Hello — is anybody there … ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've only just got here , ’ I said weakly . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 've only just got here , ’ bleated Stitch . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 've only just got off the plane , ’ insisted Crawford . |
| 28 | I was seconds behind you , entering the hole , but I 've only just arrived . |
| 29 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |
| 30 | People also think I 'm bound to have accidents , but I 've only occasionally burnt or cut myself , and surely we all do that . ’ |