Example sentences of "have only [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 2 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 3 | I 've only popped by for five minutes . |
| 4 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 5 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 6 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 7 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 8 | He 's only gone back for |