Example sentences of "i [verb] only been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 2 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 4 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 5 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 6 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |