Example sentences of "you have only " in BNC.

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1 Did n't you notice you 'd only packed the tail-end of a tube ? ’
2 You 'd only got six months to live ? )
3 Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . )
4 You might have poked the lendri 's eye out for us , if you 'd only known . "
5 ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’
6 ‘ If you 'd only told me — ’ she began .
7 ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’
8 You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back .
9 If you 'd only taken my advice and gone over the other bridge — ’
10 erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ?
11 ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose .
12 ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him .
13 Yo , you 'd only got to tell mother and she 'd soon be after him !
14 Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two
15 For us , the traverse to the Fish niche required a linked series of skyhook moves ( which is n't easy when you 've only got one ) .
16 But it is still there : the soaring vague walls and giant secretive curtain washed with colours you 've only dreamt about , the colour of all the things you were never allowed to have as a child , suddenly real and there before you .
17 To do the task requires X amount of pounds , but you 've only got X minus something .
18 You 've only got to look around you . ’
19 Nagging ‘ but … you 've got everything now ’ , ‘ please save your life/because you 've only got one ’ … which is why people give up pop music , in the end .
20 You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks .
21 Always remember that you can use tap water on it , if you 've only used drain water it sill certainly have been a bit short these last two summers .
22 In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with !
23 The Iranian snapped back : ‘ You 've only brought a very small amount of spare parts . ’
24 You 've only got to miss one mark and you 'd be out there till morning . ’
25 ‘ Our strategy is to use the cheapest workstations we can find , ’ says Rodney Armitage , head of management services , ‘ because if you lose one you 've only lost one person .
26 How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ?
27 ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’
28 You 've only got to look at it — Gasworks standard .
29 There 's no doubt he knows all about taking fences — you 've only got to watch him . ’
30 Well , you 've only got two boxes down here ; I would have got another one .
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