Example sentences of "only [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 2 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 3 | Not only that I 've got ta fit in like the children as well . |
| 4 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 5 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 6 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 7 | Look , this copy you phoned in ; when you say , 1 know only that I have a deeply satisfying face which shines with a radiance beyond the brightness of this world … ’ — should that be ‘ faith ’ ? |
| 8 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 9 | ‘ Only that I have an impression that she depends a great deal on the doctor . ’ |
| 10 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 11 | ‘ Only if I have to , ’ came the reply . |
| 12 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 13 | I 'm using it for Tottenham fair on third , second or third of er July , but only because I 've managed to get a P C enthusiastic about doing it and he 's gon na man it for the day . |
| 14 | Only because I 've just had my appraisal . |
| 15 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 16 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 17 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 18 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 19 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 20 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 21 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 22 | Or perhaps — such a suggestion rises in me only because I have lain next to the contagious soul of Gustave himself — did he gather it elsewhere ? |
| 23 | ‘ Only because I have n't been able to prove it yet . |
| 24 | ‘ Not long ; only since I 've been here . |
| 25 | Assuming Mariánky to be a shortened version of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia nodded , and Lubor beamed a smile at her as , ‘ Only since I have worked for Mr Gajdusek , ’ he replied , though could n't resist tacking on , ‘ It seems that I was meant to come here … ’ he paused for effect , and added ‘ … to wait , for you ! ’ |
| 26 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 27 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 28 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 29 | Her story emerged only after I had got to know her very well . |
| 30 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |