Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 2 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 3 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 4 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 5 | They had fought back , and it had felt the sting of their fight which had only served to make its hunger and hideous needs greater . |
| 6 | I think I did see him die , with the look of utter peace I had only read of previously . |
| 7 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 8 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 9 | Central Bank of India Slade L.J. , while accepting in principle the extensive review propounded by Lord Diplock in Racal , emphasised that Lord Diplock himself had only cast this as a presumption even in relation to administrative institutions . |
| 10 | On the other hand Leeds handed out a whopping defeat on a team who had only lost 1 of their first 9 and whose manager had just won manager of the month for September . |
| 11 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 12 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 13 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 14 | Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even . |
| 15 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 16 | And er there there was a major who 'd only got one eye . |
| 17 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 18 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 19 | But todsay Cranog Jones told the court he 'd only gone into the garage to de-tune her car after they 'd had an argument . |
| 20 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 21 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ By the time the squad returned from Norway I had only had two days training all pre-season . |
| 23 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 24 | Thank God she 'd only had sons . |
| 25 | The Thorns lived there , newcomers who 'd only moved in the year before . |
| 26 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 27 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 28 | How to make sense of Lucy and this dizzying all-consuming pain ; how to find a meaning for her life which had only acquired meaning with Lucy as its radiant centre . |
| 29 | He also replaced Leonid Kravchenko as Chairman of the USSR Broadcasting Company by RSFSR press minister Mikhail Poltoranin , temporarily banned newspapers which had only printed SCSE decrees , dismissed the chairmen of Tass and Novosti , and replaced Samsonov as commander of Leningrad military district by Rear-Adml . |
| 30 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |