Example sentences of "[pers pn] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 32 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 33 | I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent . |
| 34 | ‘ Did n't you say I 'd only got to come an' see yer if the geezer got awkward ? ’ |
| 35 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 36 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 37 | I thought I 'd only got the flu ! |
| 38 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 39 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 40 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 41 | at party yeah I was in the toilet yeah and this bloke comes in and goes oh and I 'd only got like a hit 's worth left |
| 42 | I had only attended three of his lectures before he had signed up to go to France … |
| 43 | I had only visited the house — now a museum — once before . |
| 44 | I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly . |
| 45 | I had only observed that your father was an able under-butler and addressed him accordingly . |
| 46 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 47 | ‘ If I had only said ‘ Yes ’ then Farrah would today be home with her mum where she belongs . ’ |
| 48 | Afterwards McWilliams said : ‘ Before today I had only ridden a 250 machine round Kirkistown and I found the grand prix bike a hot handful . ’ |
| 49 | Afterwards McWilliams said : ‘ Before today I had only ridden a 250 machine round Kirkistown and I found the grand prix bike a hot handful . ’ |
| 50 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 51 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 52 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 53 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 54 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 55 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 56 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 57 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 58 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 59 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 60 | I had only met her once before the film brought us together , but I remember the occasion well . |