Example sentences of "[pron] 'd only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 2 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 3 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 4 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 5 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 6 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 7 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 8 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 11 | How ridiculous to feel such a sense of possession , of oneness with a man she 'd only just met . |
| 12 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 13 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
| 14 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
| 15 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 16 | She did n't tell me how , and I did n't like to ask her — we 'd only just met ! |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd only just met . |
| 18 | and remembered , I mean when we went to the , get the meat , we were near the shop , we 'd only just got to go down |
| 19 | we 'll walk down the road at the back and we 'd only just turned round the corner from the Claremont and we found this restaurant and it was , it was an absolutely brilliant chef , really nice restaurant , really high quality and it was was quite reasonable price , it was n't cheap . |
| 20 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 21 | Well , they came by in their lorry when we 'd only just started you see , of course great ’ ooh hahhhh ’ with their when we 're treading in , and erm trouble was , we were still doing when the came along and they yelled out ’ you prisoner , we free ! ’ |
| 22 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 23 | But it was very difficult for these for young , young couples with the er er men at the front and perhaps they 'd only just got married before the war and it was very hard lines on them . |
| 24 | What it was she could n't guess , but his enmity seemed deeper than it should have been , given that they 'd only just met . |
| 25 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 26 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 27 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 28 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 29 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I think he 'd only just realised himself . |