Example sentences of "she [verb] only [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
| 2 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 3 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 4 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 5 | How ridiculous to feel such a sense of possession , of oneness with a man she 'd only just met . |
| 6 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 9 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
| 10 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
| 11 | She seemed only slightly reassured . |
| 12 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 13 | She had only just seen that Beuno had come and was sitting in the garden amongst the wild Welsh poppies and the camomile daisies and the pheasant feathers . |
| 14 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 15 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 16 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 17 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
| 18 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
| 19 | She had only just arrived , after all . |
| 20 | She had only just finished when he called her to join him and enjoy the view of Gibraltar from the sea . |
| 21 | It seemed she had only just drifted off when she was woken by a sharp rap on the door and Nathan 's impatient voice announcing , ‘ Breakfast in five minutes ! ’ |
| 22 | She had to riffle through the pages of her notebook to find the number , which she had only rarely used . |
| 23 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you , ’ some treacherous inner person she had only recently become acquainted with trotted out courteously as she took her seat . |
| 25 | She had only recently arrived in Dublin , a servant girl in the house of Captain and Mrs Lewis . |
| 26 | Her voice sounded numb , as if she had only now abandoned the hope that her employer was more misjudged than misguided . |
| 27 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
| 28 | She had only ever visited his office once before — as an awestruck teenager in the company of her stepfather — but she remembered precisely where it was . |
| 29 | She had only ever felt this physical response in Harry 's presence . |
| 30 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |