Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About4 weeks ago I realised I had only put this in the hallway after the title season , and promptly took it down . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 3 | Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ . |
| 4 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 5 | I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent . |
| 6 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 7 | I thought I 'd only got the flu ! |
| 8 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 9 | He felt he had only come alive when he started surfing . |
| 10 | In many ways she was her father 's daughter , and she knew he had only loved one woman — her mother . |
| 11 | The hearing admitted he had only agreed to appear in court if his wife and children were flown back to Britain with him at the cost of £4,000 . |
| 12 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 13 | Women currently aged 45 to 59 said they 'd only had 2.6 lovers , while men the same age boasted of 13.6 girlfriends . |
| 14 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |
| 15 | District head postmaster John Ensoll said he had only received complaints going back to December last year . |
| 16 | He said he had only repeated to the salesmen what Mr Runciman had said , that it was not a vintage year . |
| 17 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 18 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 19 | He said he 'd only meant to frighten the victim , not kill him . |