Example sentences of "[verb] only [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 2 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 3 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 4 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 5 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 6 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 7 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 8 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 9 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |