Example sentences of "i [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only here for a very short while , during which time I saw . |
| 2 | I was only just able to take care of myself so further responsibility I could not take . |
| 3 | I was only just eight . |
| 4 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 5 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 6 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 7 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 8 | I was the last to arrive , and I was only just in time for dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't see why not — after all I was only just twenty-one when I married Mark . ’ |
| 10 | I started to shrink … smaller … and smaller … until I was only just bigger than Sam , my soldier . |
| 11 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 12 | Yet , like so many others brought up through an older tradition , I was only indirectly aware of their nature , or even of their existence . |
| 13 | ‘ I was only away four days and that included the weekend . ’ |
| 14 | He said : ‘ He took a chance coming in here , I was only away for a few minutes . |
| 15 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 16 | My mind was still on Mr Billings 's problem during the afternoon calls and when we sat down to supper I was only mildly surprised to find another offering of sausage and mash . |
| 17 | But I was very lucky , I was only there for six weeks ; I was very , very lucky . |
| 18 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 19 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |
| 20 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was only there a minute but I was glad to get out . ’ |
| 22 | And I was only there for four months and . |
| 23 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 24 | Went to Canterbury and I was only there twelve months . |
| 25 | no I did n't , I never liked it , whether that was because I knew we were n't gon na be there , or , you know , I just , I was only there six months |
| 26 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 27 | I never landed a single blow on those perfect shoulders , that sun-tanned thorax , that laughing , mocking , taunting face ; but I was only too happy when he slipped through my feeble defences and gently pummelled me all over with his bare hands , until my all-too-vulnerable defence degenerated into a giggling slapping match . |
| 28 | I was only too aware of the possibility that if any guest were to find his stay at Darlington Hall less than comfortable , this might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness . |
| 29 | Thus I was only too aware that the realities of psychic phenomena were somewhat exaggerated by these treatments . |
| 30 | I was only too happy to be busy breaking the coal up with the hammer , pulling out the drawer pan and stoking up the fire with the bellows . |