Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 2 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 3 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 4 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 6 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 7 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 8 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 9 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 10 | ‘ But you only saw me the other night ! |
| 11 | Fair gave me the ‘ ump she did . |
| 12 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 14 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 15 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |
| 16 | She only left me a little note . |
| 17 | It , it was one of those chips and ju they just asked me a minute . |
| 18 | And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years . |
| 19 | GENEVIEVE CAUDEN ( STUDENT ) : A bullet just grazed me a little bit . |
| 20 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 21 | just told me a few minutes ago ! |
| 22 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 23 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 24 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 25 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 26 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 27 | Yet it was the submission of two ‘ humorous ’ scripts in ‘ The Raconteur ’ series that finally won me a job with the C.B.C . |
| 28 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 29 | ‘ They did n't pay me no wages , not real wages , they just gave me a bob now and again , and me board and lodgin' , and some clothes . |
| 30 | I mean , she did n't ask anything , she just gave me a look when I got back . |