Example sentences of "she 'd only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she said Chris oh you 're off the subsidy , she said I 'd got my wages anyway , er because she 'd only collected sixteen hundred and , hundred pounds so that , seven six are forty two , hundred and two pound you see |
| 2 | This was a problem that merited expert advice , and , although she 'd only met the personnel director once before , she 'd liked him . |
| 3 | She 'd only met him once , and then only briefly . |
| 4 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 6 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 7 | And thus , when her father 's ghastly illness had first been diagnosed , and had then continued on its remorseless path , she 'd only discovered — when it was far too late — that she and Ross had been growing steadily and disastrously apart . |
| 8 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 9 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 10 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 11 | She 'd only intended to buy a small tin of paint and one brush . |
| 12 | And though she was certain she 'd only sent out a couple of hundred invitations , it felt as though there must be at least ten times as many of the little darlings present . |
| 13 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 14 | Once she had seen Harry again , she would know if she 'd only imagined that special magic between them . |
| 15 | While Luce wondered if she 'd only imagined that emphasis on the he Michele went on , ‘ I chose this room especially for you . ’ |
| 16 | True , she 'd only glanced through them , had n't read them properly , because to do so had seemed like prying ; but they 'd seemed innocuous enough , just letters from a young girl . |
| 17 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 18 | She did n't bother to tell me that she 'd only got to call you , right ? |
| 19 | She 'd only got five minutes in which to change out of this crumpled dress and fix her make-up before interviewing yet another applicant for the job of a daily nanny to help her look after the twins . |
| 20 | You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half . |
| 21 | She 'd only got about eight caravans then . |
| 22 | She 'd only mentioned the agency 's name once the previous evening , but he 'd recalled it . |
| 23 | I mean she 'd only left two rings on her plate . |
| 24 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 25 | She 'd only had those few hours at The Haven . |
| 26 | Thank God she 'd only had sons . |
| 27 | Yeah and yet Marion had one , she 'd only had it about just over a year did n't she ? |
| 28 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 29 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 30 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |