Example sentences of "could only [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Help the Aged spokesman confirms the charity could only move into television with Eagle Star help . |
| 2 | The Padre was very weak now , and could only move from place to place if someone helped him . |
| 3 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 4 | Manager Graeme Souness 's touchline ban meant he could only watch in anguish from the directors ' box . |
| 5 | But suddenly she was doubly shaken , and could only stare in astonishment at the tall , lean , aristocratic-looking man who had rounded that same corner in time to see all that had happened . |
| 6 | Like her father Elizabeth could only pay for war by resorting to forced loans , benevolences , and various other devices that proved unpopular in the long run , although , to her credit , she never debased the coinage . |
| 7 | There was a lot of noise , much broken glass and Bernard and Laura could only guess with horror at the disreputable behaviour until they found evidence on the lawn the following morning . |
| 8 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 9 | A general in the regular army , he could only serve as lieutenant-colonel of the Sussex militia . |
| 10 | Furniture manufacturers could only operate under licence to the government and most of their products were designated for the defence of the realm . |
| 11 | ( vi ) If the court should hold that a right to sue in libel must be allowed to a local government authority , then , in the alternative , this court should , in extending the law of libel to permit actions by a local authority , impose particular restrictions or limitations upon the cause of action , namely that a local authority could only sue for libel upon proof of special damage ; and that the council would be required to prove both the falsity of the allegation and that it was published maliciously . |
| 12 | Yet Moore did not think value could only occur in relation to human experience . |