Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] only [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I only had one bad knee but then this time I got two . |
| 2 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 3 | But I mean I say , I do n't know how true that is , I mean I only heard that through somebody else . |
| 4 | I mean I only paid a hundred and sixty pound a month but I mean |
| 5 | ‘ You say you only began to feel funny while you were looking at the eye ? ’ |
| 6 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 7 | Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment . |
| 8 | People say he only joined your team by mistake because he loves dancing . |
| 9 | I hope I only said parrot . |
| 10 | I know she only sent eighty five pound the other week , Monday afternoon , one afternoon , and she come out with three pounds , eighty three pounds . |
| 11 | You know we only imported a small amount but all the same there was always enough to meet demand . |
| 12 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 13 | ‘ And I suppose you only had to flash your smile at the women in the village to have them all falling over themselves to tell you more . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We believe they only had a couple of gallons of fuel aboard . |
| 15 | I mean they only had their door there and letting in draughts and them running in and out you see we put that there look . |
| 16 | I mean they only threw him out because they just did n't , have the , the , the staff , I mean I sat in there day after day and I felt bloody sorry , they were ringing , ninety percent of their day taken by ringing , begging for staff |
| 17 | Katherine Colgrave 's lawyers claim she only discovered in 1984 that she may have escaped disability if she 'd been correctly diagnosed and treated soon after birth . |
| 18 | Now they claim they only signed at the suggestion of Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell — and the buck passes on . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , the House of Bruce , for a brief while , tasted royalty and many claim it only whetted their appetite . |
| 20 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 21 | I used to drink really quite strong before , but I decided to give up erm , like , take less sugar , so if you take less sugar , I think I only took two sugars anyway , 'cos my tea was so strong , 'cos 'cos the stronger it is , you need more sugar to sweeten it . |
| 22 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , I 'm so excited about everything , I think I only slept for a couple of hours . ’ |
| 24 | Well I think she only had a girl . |
| 25 | I think we only lost about 4 home games . |
| 26 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 27 | He was then in his late seventies , but I think he only sat down once . |
| 28 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 29 | And er , I think it only struck me on Saturday and I tho I too I was in the car car with Carl and oh no ! |
| 30 | I think it only lasted through the summer vacation , but it was a , it was an interesting experience , and in fact in , in their own little way the group showed some of the tensions which we found in our seventeenth-century radicals . |