Example sentences of "[conj] only [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chanting of the priests seemed to summon wings , though as Tallis skirted these Celtic shrines she could see nothing ; and only heard the raucous pleasure of the crow goddess . |
| 2 | Try persuasion , humour , tact and only use the ultimate authority as a last resort |
| 3 | The rest of the team , panicking , tried to gallop free and only slewed the broken limber round . |
| 4 | two people book a small mobile home on any high season depart from Saturday the tenth of July oh that 's after you , oh wait a minute , until twenty third of August and only pay the low season charge , save , save over thirty pound per |
| 5 | One must talk to people physically present as if on the telephone , where frequent interjections and verbal responses must be given if only to assure the other party that one is still paying attention . |
| 6 | I had to think carefully now — if only to remember the exact procedure . |
| 7 | If only to improve the international capacity of their state and society to engage in economic , military and diplomatic competition , state elites have institutional interests in expanded welfare services and military — industrial complexes , which in turn give an impetus to the accelerated growth of state personnel , tasks and technologies . |
| 8 | Most of us try to stop fights , if only to protect the smaller child , but many experts suggest that we interfere too soon . |
| 9 | He would have been glad to talk , if only to escape the profitless treadmill of his thoughts — impressions rather than thoughts , random images which presented themselves again and again to his mind ! |
| 10 | The whole board , apart from libel lawyer Jonathan Crystal , is against Venables and wants him to go , if only to end the disastrous deadlock which is keeping the club in a state of commercial limbo . |
| 11 | I might just give him another run — if only to keep the stable going ’ . |
| 12 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 13 | Crease in the cutting lines at top and bottom when hanging , but only remove the surplus material when the covering is dry . |
| 14 | Always pick a flower on the very day that it comes into full bloom , because the process of ageing takes place very rapidly in flowers , and pressing does not rejuvenate them , but only halts the ageing process at the moment of pressing . |
| 15 | The driver gunned the accelerator too hard in his anxiety and the car slid sideways , its rear wheels spinning as it tried to grip the tarmac , but only contacted the thin layer of overnight frost . |
| 16 | I could not help her directly but only invoke the greatest power we eagles have . |
| 17 | And we 've , but only found the middle part |