Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 2 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 3 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 4 | Swinton , who sold him to Widnes for only £7,500 in January last year , would like him back . |
| 5 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 6 | PENSIONERS in Grampian will be able to travel on all bus services in the region and on journeys to and from destinations as far away as Inverness and Dundee for only 10p , it was announced yesterday . |
| 7 | Swindon took the lead against Watford after only 4 minutes , deadly Duncan Shearer once again the scorer , but here 's the goal of the game , goal of the season . |
| 8 | Inside , she was like his stepfather 's room … dark and secret , allowing David into only a small part of it . |
| 9 | For all that following wind the boat was stuck at Muirtown with only one lock and the sea gate between it , the Moray Firth , and home that night . |
| 10 | Captain Marryat , Fenimore Cooper with more than one title , R. M. Ballantyne at the top with four , Sir Walter Scott with only two . |
| 11 | Brackley was surrounded by a number of smaller villages , such as Hinton with a population of approximately 175 [ Baker , 1 , 635 ] , the hamlet of Steane with only 15 [ Baker , 1 , 686 ] or , somewhat further , the village where Leapor was born , Marston St. Lawrence , where about 370 people lived [ Baker , 1 , 642 ] . |
| 12 | Colin croft — took 8 for 29 against Pakistan in only his second Test , the second-best West Indian Test figures of all . |
| 13 | ( Palestinian sources had recently estimated their total numbers in Kuwait at only some 107,000 . ) |
| 14 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 15 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |
| 16 | 29 DECEMBER–1 JANUARY FOR ONLY £595 |
| 17 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 18 | His patent application for ‘ Apparatus for Brewing and Distilling ’ ( no. 5,974 ) is dated 1830 , and he was granted a patent for Ireland for only fourteen years from 1831 . |
| 19 | A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years . |
| 20 | In the Spanish-American war of 1898 , troops arrived in Florida with only winter clothing . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to Washington with only the clothes on my back . ’ |
| 22 | US aid to Sudan stood at $64m in 1981 , rising to $121m in 1984 ; in 1986 total US military and economic aid to Sudan stood at $158m prior to total suspension in late February with only $50m of food aid being disbursed following Sudan 's developing relations with Libya . |
| 23 | In the PGA Championship at Inverness , he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play — and still lost , Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie . |
| 24 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 25 | Although determined to keep the demon of separation caged , the party ruling Scotland with only 11 out of 72 Scottish MPs in its ranks had to look ahead . |
| 26 | This leaves Scotland with only two routes confirmed at E7 and two more awaiting confirmation . |
| 27 | in Scotland with only 11 per cent . |
| 28 | The Scottish National Party leader , Alex Salmond , argued that it was under Tory rule that takeovers and closures had caused the loss of most companies , leaving Scotland with only 4 per cent of company headquarters in the UK . |
| 29 | The same outcome in Seville tonight would leave Spain with only one win from four games and put the Republic in an almost unassailable position . |
| 30 | The Nottingham Forest manager feels his abrasive temperament and outspoken style have left Nigel with only eight caps to his name . |