Example sentences of "[pers pn] can only [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm hopeless on the guitar — I can only play a few chords . ’ |
| 2 | If you can only wait a few — ’ |
| 3 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 4 | When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Because I think that they and that we can only say the same again next year when our own , everything goes up and , I think it 's very sad that the church ca n't ! |
| 6 | Today he 's kept alive by a machine … he can only walk a few yards before getting out of breath . |