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
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