Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] only the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While France , Italy and the Low Countries were interested in developing common political institutions with a supranational flavour , Britain and its Nordic supporters wanted only the traditional form of intergovernmental collaboration . |
| 2 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 3 | The earliest aero-engines had only the crudest form of speed control , a ‘ blip ’ or magneto on-off switch . |
| 4 | The majority of farm servants stayed only the one year with their master after the annual hiring , but they moved only into the service of other farmers drawing labour from the same hiring fair . |
| 5 | During the talks with MITI they described plans completed only the previous day for their future programme of support and promotion for open systems . |
| 6 | Police found only the broken-down Marina car , which had left Mrs Wilks , her 13-month-old son Mark , and her sister , Georgina Gough , 11 , stranded on the M50 near the Tewkesbury turn off . |
| 7 | There was little consistency on record-keeping , some authorities having extensive personal files while others kept only the minimum information . |
| 8 | Short commons bought only the bare necessities . |
| 9 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |