Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 4 | I was terribly disappointed that I got only two " O " levels — for English Language and history . |
| 5 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 6 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 7 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 8 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 9 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 10 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 11 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 12 | It amused him too that I used only pins to mount most of the items on the card . |
| 13 | She was surprised to find that she felt only contempt . |
| 14 | Her robe hung open , revealing that she wore only a brief pair of panties . |
| 15 | And was it also true that she saw only bad in Maisie 's boy ? |
| 16 | The problem was that she had only one bedroom . |
| 17 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 18 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 19 | She kept in the background , realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers . |
| 20 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 21 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 22 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 23 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 24 | Mme Fournier was still in the car , she called out that she had only come to deliver a message . |
| 25 | She stifled the inevitable tears of self-pity , only too aware that she had only herself to blame … |
| 26 | These figures were virtually unchanged when war broke out with Spain in 1739 ; but lack of maintenance under the Walpole regime meant that she had only 35 of the line fit for immediate use . |
| 27 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 28 | She went hot all over at the thought , too upset to understand that she had only escaped his hold because he had let her . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were those , of course , who 'd say that she 'd only herself to blame . |