Example sentences of "only [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 5 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 6 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |