Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 2 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 3 | Running their corporation according to the ancient precepts of the Talmud , they shunned all publicity and trusted only a handful of associates . |
| 4 | On abortion , the Committee accepted the medical view that any abortion entailed danger to life and health and recommended only a clarification of the law to allow therapeutic abortion on health grounds . |
| 5 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |