Example sentences of "we only [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school .
2 We only went for two days .
3 We only went through
4 erm there is criticism that erm we only went into this war because of oil interests .
5 I used to , no I only went away on er , we only went to Rotterdam once , that 's all .
6 Well we 've we only went to the if you like the training session of the er erm participants yesterday and we 've got our next meeting on the 22nd February that I 've invited you to at .
7 Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats .
8 We only got off the unit for exercise about twice a week .
9 Unfortunately we only got within 15km from the town .
10 We only looked at it yesterday ? ,
11 But we only looked in B & Q for that did n't we ?
12 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
13 That we only lay on the ground and kissed .
14 We only realised on Monday Sunderland were likely to bring 6,000 fans with them .
15 Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’
16 We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track !
17 We only had about six folks watching us though .
18 but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia
19 But I mean if we only had like the writing paper and the envelopes and re-use labels , small items of stationery
20 Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ?
21 We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials .
22 We only caught about half of what was coming across .
23 We only stayed on the beach for a couple of hours or so , and there was a breeze . ’
24 Yes er I think that er notwithstanding the fact that we only spoke about the er incentive scheme on occasions , we reserved our er judgment as to when we would apply to the management to discuss certain matters .
25 ( Our sample was obviously biased because we only spoke to couples who felt secure in the knowledge that the adoption had just been completed . )
26 We only spoke of happy things … ’
27 It amazes me just how much was achieved , with such positive results , especially as we only dug from 2.15 to 6.00 P.m .
28 Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs .
29 We only decided after talking it over with Angela . ’
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