Example sentences of "[be] only [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forgive us , Mistress Tolonen , ’ one of them said , recognising her , ‘ but we are only acting on our master 's orders . ’ |
| 2 | You 're only looking at her body ! |
| 3 | Anyway , I 'm only passing on her message . |
| 4 | She did not actually remember herself as talking the whole of the time — could there have been silent passages when the words were only reeling through her mind ? |
| 5 | they were only going on their reputation |
| 6 | Her elder sister rebukes her : ‘ It 's only providing for its family ; it has a right to them . |
| 7 | Like it 's only played from your wrist . |
| 8 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 9 | Take a closer look at Forte Roadside Restaurants and Accommodation , where the pace is fast , furious and a lot of fun , where the opportunity is only limited by your ambition and where there really is never a dull moment . |
| 10 | Perhaps then Britain is only losing from its delay in moving to ‘ post-Fordism ’ , and creating the flexible small modern factory . |
| 11 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 12 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 13 | This skimpy description is not unusual in a survey , and the missing positive evaluation he might have made is only implied in his choice of the sculpture for inclusion in his book . |
| 14 | The point is summed up in one of Aesop 's fables : ‘ The rabbit runs faster than the fox , because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner . ’ |
| 15 | One reason for this is summarized in the Aesopian moral : The rabbit runs faster than the fox , because the rabbit is running for his life , while the fox is only running for his dinner . |
| 16 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 17 | Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist , though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage . |
| 18 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 19 | My enjoyment was only tempered by my fear of pumping out . |
| 20 | Errol Flynn 's drug abuse was only revealed after his death . |
| 21 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 22 | ( The education of Dustin towards some understanding of feminism , even though mainly in theory rather than in practice , was only to come after his divorce , the making of Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie , and marriage to a woman who did not put his ideas to the test . ) |
| 23 | This Anti-Critique was only published after her death , and Bukharin joined the debate only in 1924 with his own book Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital . |
| 24 | The Department of Education was only informed of his decision last night . |
| 25 | Then followed a story about the ineptitude of a young policeman in handling a domestic dispute , who was only rescued from his incompetence by a wise reserve man . |