Example sentences of "i have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
2 | Yeah you see I 've only got fifty two and I 've got eight hundred quid less than you |
3 | And I do n't I 've only got one left . |
4 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
7 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
8 | 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 . |
9 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
10 | Mrs Ellerton said : ‘ I 'd only flicked through the book and that one mistake jumped off the page at me . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
13 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
16 | ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night . |
17 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
18 | I 'd only gone part of the way when I collided with Dad . |
19 | I 'd only gone say two weeks without it , but it takes a lot longer than that to actually sort yourself out , anyway … . |
20 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | ‘ If I 'd only realized sooner — ’ |
23 | 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 ! |
24 | well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty |
25 | I 'd put half a dozen 10p pieces in there to phone home , and I 'd only used one . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
29 | I 'd only had it round about ten minutes and I thought |
30 | ‘ If I 'd only thought … |