Example sentences of "only [verb] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females can literally smell success , and will only mate with a victorious male . |
| 2 | Bobby pounded on the door with his fists , but Enoch only responded with a Jewish incantation . |
| 3 | Thus individuals are only presented with a limited choice of tenure and , according to the Nationwide Building Society |
| 4 | They say I have only flirted with a temporary vice and its vice-keeper and , having survived them both , I am still me and I am no junkie . |
| 5 | As a result , a political response to economic crisis does not arise automatically , but may only emerge with a considerable lag , and its content will be highly variable from polity to polity . |
| 6 | This fountain , perhaps of ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ , is only produced with a vast effort : the process of creation is very difficult . |
| 7 | This policy booklet is only produced with a comprehensive wording , reduction in cover is driven by the wording in the ‘ Your insurance cover ’ section of the schedule . |
| 8 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 9 | Though what will happen in the next century up to 2025 , as table 5.4 suggests , we can only calculate with a large margin of error . |
| 10 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 11 | Her hair , which is down to her bum , and a colour of gold one only gets with a little help from Miss Clairol , was an absolute mess from the wind . |
| 12 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 13 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 14 | The second ultrastructural pattern of H pylori , which is only associated with a damaged epithelium , seems related to the absence of a sufficient exogenous source of energy when a longstanding bacterial infection has depleted the local resources . |
| 15 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 16 | Easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with Pythagoras you 're only working with a right angles triangle . |