Example sentences of "he only [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only saw Emily Groundwater once again in his life , and that was at a soirée at the Heathertons ' , to which he was invited because the Professor had told the chaplain of Paul 's impending journey to Oxford . |
| 2 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 3 | He only became whole in becoming a legionnaire . |
| 4 | Why hurt another girl by pretending an interest he did n't feel when she , Gina , was already on the scene — a woman for whose family he only felt contempt and whose imminent departure was already planned ? |
| 5 | He only had minutes . |
| 6 | He had stolen £1,200 and , when asked why he only had £700 left , said : ‘ I gave the rest to a prostitute for sex . ’ |
| 7 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 8 | He only had time to read potted critical works now , with Finals a few weeks off . |
| 9 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 10 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 11 | He only had charts for western Russia , primarily Moscow and St Petersburg . |
| 12 | ‘ He only received £11,000 PRS . ’ |
| 13 | He only wished Hans were with him , not just as a drinking partner but also because he had always been the brains of the duo . |
| 14 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 15 | Cos he only got sandwiches . |
| 16 | He only hoped Jane had remembered to leave the window open — otherwise he was rightly stuck . |
| 17 | He only hoped Clare did n't think so . |
| 18 | Alice swore that he only took tea once , and certainly did not stay overnight . |
| 19 | Another problem which frequently arises in practice is the claim by the employee that , after the end of his employment , he only used information which was already in his memory . |
| 20 | He only used spanners and gauges , scorning the runes or litanies which all other techs deemed so essential to woo the spirit of a machine . |
| 21 | Bill Hand was a little fellow with a little name — he only stood 5ft 6ins in his stockinged feet — but he was tough and sturdy and could play on the wing or at inside-forward and did so to considerable effect for the Palace in the early 1920s . |
| 22 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he was , of course , ’ said Belinda , ‘ but he only gave phenobarbitol , no magnesium sulphate yet , and her blood-pressure has dropped slightly already . |
| 24 | ( He only discussed imprisonment as the temporary incarceration of a suspect before trial . |
| 25 | He only did telly once — Hysteria ! on Channel Four . |
| 26 | He only liked people of his own generation . |
| 27 | ‘ He only loved Iritnefert 's mother . |
| 28 | And he only charged sixpence . |