Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 32 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 34 | I only fill them in that I know for a fact . |
| 35 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 36 | But I only associated it with wine . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 38 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 39 | I only put it to you . |
| 40 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 41 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 42 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 43 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 44 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 46 | As I said , I only know her by sight , and , now you mention it , I have n't seen her around lately . ’ |
| 47 | The latter is the usual pattern and I only know it to be his as the items came from the family . |
| 48 | The chants which did catch my ear on sat were that newish Brian Deane one again , but I still have n't heard the beginning , I only know it from the ‘ scores off the bar , f**k Cantona ’ line — anyone else know it in full ? |
| 49 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 50 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 51 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 52 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 53 | ‘ I only put her in there for a minute . ’ |
| 54 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 55 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 56 | I only wanted it for a |
| 57 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 58 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 59 | I only want us to be together , always . ’ |
| 60 | I only want you to cos it 'll make it up to three . |