Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the lack of time county selectors may normally only select from those players nominated from either schools and clubs . |
| 2 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |
| 3 | He repeatedly uses the pronoun ‘ She ’ along with ‘ her ’ and describes the train 's movements such as ‘ bouncing ’ which one would normally only connect with human activity but here it enables one to envisage in one 's mind a picture of a regal figure ‘ gliding like a queen ’ down the tracks of the railway . |
| 4 | We shall therefore only look at some of the writings we could have considered , and concentrate on those works which contain a large proportion of anthropological discussion . |
| 5 | This section will therefore only touch on some of the techniques which have become better understood as the result of scientific research . |
| 6 | Brando is like a creature from a different world and time , a lumbering dinosaur who can perhaps only survive in post-modern MTV Hollywood as a kind of comic carnival turn . |
| 7 | IT , OT and CTT policies do not include a ‘ more specifically insured ’ exclusion so even if an expensive ring for example , which may be lost or stolen , is separately insured under a Home or All Risks policy we can still only deal with this on an independent liability basis . |
| 8 | But I can still only see through half my eye . |