Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] only [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 2 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 3 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 4 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 5 | And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop . |
| 6 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 7 | Tickets for the show , which is being backed by the Arts Council , the City Council , and the Merseyside Development Corporation , sold out in only a few hours . |
| 8 | It was bitterly cold , and light trickled in on only every second twist in the stairs . |
| 9 | Have you ever looked at a coke fire ? the coke fire has been banked up with only a limited supply of air . |
| 10 | Short , bespectacled Mansell scrambled out with only a slight head injury . |
| 11 | They were brought out on only a few special occasions and were always carefully washed and returned to their place of honour . |
| 12 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 13 | A cheer went up with only a single shout of ‘ Shame ! ’ — and recognizing defeat , Will turned and fled without carrying out his threat . |
| 14 | Now if we put these two parameters on here , we end up with only a small proportion of patients who actually have high pressure and low flow . |
| 15 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 16 | He dared venture out on only the balmiest of days , lest he catch cold . |
| 17 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 18 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 19 | A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history . |
| 20 | Finally , he sat , silent and quivering , bursting out with only an occasional , suppressed sniffle . |