Example sentences of "you have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
2 | ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him . |
3 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
4 | Did n't you notice you 'd only packed the tail-end of a tube ? ’ |
5 | If you 'd only taken my advice and gone over the other bridge — ’ |
6 | ‘ Mrs Funnell thought it better not to call him because you 'd only taken a small dose . |
7 | You might have poked the lendri 's eye out for us , if you 'd only known . " |
8 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
9 | ‘ If you 'd only told me — ’ she began . |
10 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
11 | You 'd only got six months to live ? ) |
12 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
13 | Yo , you 'd only got to tell mother and she 'd soon be after him ! |
14 | Right now you 've only moved the point once . |
15 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
16 | And you 've only done , how many ? |
17 | ‘ We think it 's pretty special ourselves — the land of beech trees , storks and marguerites — and you 've only seen such a small part of it . |
18 | If you 've only seen a De Lorean car in the Back to the Future films then drop in at the old plant in Dunmurry on Saturday afternoon ( 3.30 ) where the dream machine was produced . |
19 | you 've only worn that once . |
20 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
21 | ‘ Our strategy is to use the cheapest workstations we can find , ’ says Rodney Armitage , head of management services , ‘ because if you lose one you 've only lost one person . |
22 | Yeah , but if you 've only written one cheque in the past whatever . |
23 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
24 | They stay submerged for ages , until you begin to think you 've only imagined you saw one go in — and then they pop up with a beakful of food . |
25 | ‘ Ah , but you 've only sampled my pasta . |
26 | No that 's right , you 've only found the letter P , you 've got to find P R |
27 | ‘ You 've only had my bark ; so far . ’ |
28 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
29 | But a you 've only had twenty minutes on group dynamics . |
30 | Eve , but listen , when you 've been out with me on a Monday I 've said to you you 've only had a cauliflower |