Example sentences of "[pers pn] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 2 | There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here . |
| 3 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 4 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 5 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 6 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 8 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 9 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 10 | His own country offered him only the deathbed of his mother , and twelve years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | … They saw in him only the prophet of freedom . ’ |
| 12 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 13 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 14 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 15 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 16 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 17 | They owed her only the debt of Ruth . |
| 18 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 19 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
| 20 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 21 | Is it only the recession that makes so many people , especially the young , talk so much about their job prospects ? |
| 22 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 23 | The Tsar rejected the Duma 's demands and permitted it only the briefest of sessions . |
| 24 | Is it only the additional or marginal cost to the employer providing the service for the employee , or is it a proportionate part of the total costs incurred by the employer in providing the facility to be used both by the public and by the employee ? |
| 25 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
| 26 | Or was it only the storm ? |
| 27 | ‘ Was it only the meal , Sam ? ’ |
| 28 | We 're certainly paying , I , I , I think it 's capital receipts , is it off , is it only the capital receipts on the interest . |
| 29 | yeah , is it , is this one alright is it , is it only the one broken or two |
| 30 | No I hope it stays like this , is it gon na stay like this all day or is it only the morning ? |