Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 2 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 3 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 4 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 5 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 6 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 7 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 8 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 9 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 10 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 11 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 12 | Well he 's only put it on one side . |
| 13 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 15 | You 've only had them on one morning . |
| 16 | Because such objects gain value as time elapses it means that a profit can be realised by anyone patient enough to conceal them for twenty years . |
| 17 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 18 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 19 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll only require you for one hour a day . |
| 21 | When he only bought them for three X ? |
| 22 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 23 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 24 | The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time . |
| 25 | We only have it on one bar , two bar |
| 26 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 27 | AA Hospital Plus will cover you for private health care of up to £10,000 , £20,000 , or even £40,000 , if the National Health Service can not treat you within six weeks . |
| 28 | He threatened that if the Moldavian authorities did not notify him within 10 days of their implementation of measures to extricate Moldavia from its crisis of " inter-ethnic confrontation " he would take " necessary measures " in accordance with his newly enhanced presidential powers [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 29 | Do n't just pour it in one place . |
| 30 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |