Example sentences of "say he [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | One player says he 's only had his cycle this term and finds it very diifficult and he falls off a lot and hurts himself . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont , speaking to journalists at a Treasury press conference , justified the imposition of VAT , saying he believed only fiscal measures could produce the necessary energy savings to meet commitments on global warming . |
| 3 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 4 | That 's what he said , and he kept on saying he had only four thousand five hundred pounds or something , that 's all the money he had , he was on about that all the time . |
| 5 | He said he had only offered to use the truncheon as a sex aid but desisted when she shook her head . |
| 6 | He said he had only a brief look at the course before the race . |
| 7 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 8 | District head postmaster John Ensoll said he had only received complaints going back to December last year . |
| 9 | He said he had only repeated to the salesmen what Mr Runciman had said , that it was not a vintage year . |
| 10 | He said he 'd only meant to frighten the victim , not kill him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the essence remains the same : a Chief Leader has his team of leaders ; the young explorers are divided into 12-strong ‘ fires ’ — a notion of Murray Levick 's , who said he wanted only as many people as could decently sit round a campfire . |
| 13 | I said he 's only got a bag of my plums ! |
| 14 | John said he acknowledged only Christ as supreme head of the Kirk and , in religious matters , would obey only His laws . |
| 15 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |