Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 2 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 3 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 4 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 5 | Then he stopped , remembering that his status aboard the Simonova carried with it only a limited amount of authority . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 7 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 8 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | British socialism , so alien to the American way of life , was to them only a short step away from communism , which they feared would engulf the whole of Europe . |
| 11 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 12 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 13 | 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 . |