Example sentences of "[v-ing] only a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 2 | Stephen Tomkinson , 32 , lay in wait in his 46-year-old victim 's bathroom in Leigh Woods , Bristol , wearing only a pair of goalkeeper 's gloves . |
| 3 | I catch his head on the tilt , and he rights it without shame , showing only a flicker of annoyance at not catching a snippet of a sight . |
| 4 | This was encouraged by governments and energy agencies , keen for both strategic , economic and political reasons to reduce the heavy dependence on a fuel where the bulk of reserves are concentrated in the Middle East , in the hands of a cartel awaiting only a tightening of supply to raise prices to 1979 levels and possibly above . |
| 5 | The temple collapsed , leaving only a dungeon of lust . |
| 6 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 7 | Morse took an almighty swig from his replenished pint , leaving only an inch of beer in the glass . |