Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 2 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 3 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 4 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 5 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 6 | Mrs Ellerton said : ‘ I 'd only flicked through the book and that one mistake jumped off the page at me . |
| 7 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 8 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 11 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night . |
| 13 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 14 | I 'd only gone part of the way when I collided with Dad . |
| 15 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd only realized sooner — ’ |
| 19 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |
| 20 | well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty |
| 21 | I 'd put half a dozen 10p pieces in there to phone home , and I 'd only used one . |
| 22 | The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows . |
| 23 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 24 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 25 | I 'd only had it round about ten minutes and I thought |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd only thought … |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Did n't you say I 'd only got to come an' see yer if the geezer got awkward ? ’ |