Example sentences of "only [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said he said yes sh with , with her , when she was first married , but she only lived there a couple of months . |
| 2 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 3 | Cos if the steamer only came once a week that would n't have been enough . |
| 4 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 5 | But it was n't like the long white er the wild white clover but it did only did maybe a year or two . |
| 6 | Good heavens , she only left here a week ago ! |