Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 2 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 3 | I only gave her fifteen . |
| 4 | And I just gave you two , two are n't I ? |
| 5 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 6 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 7 | I said I almost charged him sixteen instead of |
| 8 | I never saw them two fellers before , they 're new to me , ’ Peter told me . |
| 9 | See say you do n't gon na gallop five fur you did n't gallop five furlongs , well , they might think you 're gon na finish five , you only galloped 'em four . |
| 10 | Yeah , she only charged me two fifty today . |
| 11 | ‘ She usually got it one way or another . ’ |
| 12 | No do n't give them to her look you bloody nicked her fifteen P , then you nick her crisps . |
| 13 | The first man , Maui , begged Mafulke for a little fire and she reluctantly gave him one of her fingers . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , to let Blackbeard know we only charged him fifty per cent for returning it . ’ |
| 15 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 16 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 17 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 18 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 19 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 20 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 21 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 22 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 23 | He just gave her one look . |
| 24 | and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think . |
| 25 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
| 26 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
| 27 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |