Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 2 | Well do n't to me I 've only just you |
| 3 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 4 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 5 | Among the three-quarters of a million evacuees was one , whom I remember only as Ron , and who was drafted to my uncle 's home . |
| 6 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 7 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 8 | I admired the speech of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , one of the more distinguished orators in the House , against whom I debated only a week or two ago in the Oxford Union . |
| 9 | I tell them I want only to talk , but , they — being dedicated professionals — think I am joking . |
| 10 | Oh er I I 've only been erm I 've only had one job . |
| 11 | I 'm I I 've only just l l looked at this like very er er like everybody else . |
| 12 | I I 've only ever seen the first film of it . |
| 13 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 14 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 15 | " There 's just one other matter which I mention only to set your minds at rest … |
| 16 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 17 | Yeah and it causes me more washing up which I 've only just finished . |
| 18 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The bulk was in Latin , a language of which I had only the barest understanding from a single term spent in its study at Elizabeth Barton 's . |
| 21 | To interrupt at such a time would be selfish and babyish — which I had only just promised Heavenly Father not to be . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The other recollection was a speech by Hanif Kureishi , the film-maker , about which I recall only how much I disliked it . |
| 24 | I am closely following the progress of Brooke CTC , the site of which I visited only recently . |
| 25 | But not this next example , the extent of which I have only recently begun to fully appreciate . |
| 26 | and she would I think be prepared to as she 's in charge of their sort of arrangements for where they dance , er it 's easier than ne negotiating with someone who who I 've only met once er very briefly . |
| 27 | Of the town itself I remember only two things . |
| 28 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
| 29 | It 's something I have only recently learned to do , and she seemed to appreciate it . |
| 30 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |