Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] only [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something was badly out of alignment which only became apparent at speed . |
| 2 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 3 | The main reason for this discrepancy was probably their method of testing which only used very small amounts of the test foods ( see p 91 ) . |
| 4 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 5 | make sure I see her this week , so she said oh she said Penny is a good girl she said er there was Penny and Margaret working at G P P and she said they were both doing test but she said come the end of day they only wanted one she said and for that , so she said Penny stood back and let Margaret stay to keep her job |
| 6 | But I 'm sure John will go into a lot of detail I only needed to mention . |
| 7 | Although the troubles were as easily put down as their precursors they formed part of a traditional pattern of protest which only disappeared some two hundred years later . |
| 8 | Alexei guessed that if Burun wished to discredit him with Artai he only had to link his name with any one of the intrigues which were a constant background to the life of the court . |
| 9 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 10 | When you were in love you only thought of yourself and your love ; Ruth knew that well enough . |
| 11 | In fact I only had time now because I had left Rebecca parked in her pram outside the supermarket . |
| 12 | In fact I only missed one prep . |
| 13 | Whilst I was in prison I only saw my daughter twice . |
| 14 | At school we only had alliances , offensive or defensive . |