Example sentences of "[vb past] only [vb pp] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 2 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 3 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 5 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 6 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 7 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 8 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |
| 9 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 10 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 11 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 12 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 15 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |