Example sentences of "only [verb] [adv prt] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 2 | He said their figures applied to five other water authorities as well as AW , and said disconnection was only carried out as a last resort , when all other methods failed . |
| 3 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 4 | The Profitboss only sub-contracts out as a last resort . |
| 5 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |