Example sentences of "it only [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 2 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 3 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
| 7 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |