Example sentences of "i only [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only speak from observation ; yours may be different , I grant . |
| 2 | I only hope to God she 's not in too much pain . |
| 3 | I only hope to God one of them is . ’ |
| 4 | Sebastiana : I only suffer from overwork nervos . |
| 5 | Du n no yet , I really do n't know , erm well I only popped in Sundays , I 've been going to spend the week , er the other half and me ended up in Littlehampton and Arronale for the day . |
| 6 | well I only lived in London for about six months . |
| 7 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a place where I only come with Ken , ’ she said . |
| 9 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 10 | I only go for tendering of accounts like B T for example |
| 11 | Ah , I only said to Chris the other day , I thought god I have n't seen Trevor for ages , I honestly did and I , I did n't think you know , anything wrong with him . |
| 12 | And I only said to Joe yesterday |
| 13 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 14 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 15 | I only arrived from London a minute ago . |
| 16 | I only work in metal ; steel and occasionally alluminium . |
| 17 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |
| 18 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 19 | I said it will be nice company and so she said er , you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before as I only live in Manchester so she t well the two of us went together . |
| 20 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 21 | Is sex , for me , something I only want with strangers in the dark ? |
| 22 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 23 | I only appear in court when other people have been unjustly treated . |
| 24 | ‘ I only moved from Middlesbrough because I became a little stale . |