Example sentences of "it only [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 3 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 6 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 7 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 8 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 9 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 10 | Then , it only commanded a small proportion of the UK biscuit market . |
| 11 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 12 | No one is absolutely certain of the reasons for the collapse , yet it only needed a sudden fear that share prices would drop to produce panic . |
| 13 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 14 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |