Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] only [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 2 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 3 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 4 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 5 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 6 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 7 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 8 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |