Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 2 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 3 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 4 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 5 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 6 | PARTICK THISTLE take on Hibs at Firhill tonight in the throes of a long , destructive run which has seen them win only one of their last 12 league matches and slip towards relegation , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 7 | That is , if a group announces that it will organise a counter demonstration in opposition to one of which the police have been notified under section 11 , the police can if necessary subject the late comers to conditions imposed under sections 12 or 14 that effectively prevent the two groups from clashing , or permitting them to meet only in carefully controlled conditions . |
| 8 | I cite only a few . |
| 9 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
| 10 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 11 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 12 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 13 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 14 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
| 15 | Yeah you see I 've only got fifty two and I 've got eight hundred quid less than you |
| 16 | And I do n't I 've only got one left . |
| 17 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
| 18 | When I refer to ‘ large quantities ’ I mean only that they are large in comparison with the amount of other types of bait one would normally use , i.e. 1lb of tares represents many thousands of particles , whereas 1lb of groundbait is a small amount . |
| 19 | I mean only what anyone would mean by saying that clouds mean ( i.e. are a sign of ) rain or , as in Figure 3 , that bees mean honey . |
| 20 | I mean only that if the problem is in their heads then the solution can be found in the same place . |
| 21 | you see because living here like this and er I mean , I mean only yesterday I heard of an people burst in the door and this old lady on the head and where 's your money and that sort of thing , you know , so it it 's really terrible . |
| 22 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 23 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 24 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 25 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 26 | But I eat only foods low in fat , I do n't eat between meals and I 've stopped bingeing . |
| 27 | Now I eat only one meal a day |
| 28 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 29 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |
| 30 | I met only Peter on 30 May as Paul was ill , and that only briefly . |