Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 2 | A frightened boy , a boy who , in spite of trying with all his might to please the man who had married his mother , had only succeeded in doing the exact opposite . |
| 3 | In Oviedo an infuriated mob was only prevented from lynching the distinguished poet Meléndez Valdés by the appearance of priests with the exposed host . |
| 4 | It 's only got ta match the existing er |
| 5 | Oh they 've only got ta get the two done and they 've got their money back have n't they ? |
| 6 | and as you say you 've only got ta read the small print you find that spent percentage of this and that . |
| 7 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 8 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 9 | MacQuillan was n't only talking about getting the British out of Northern Ireland , he was using HM Supplies to channel money to terrorist groups . |
| 10 | the first is the idea that productivity and profit only come from making the most of the people in the organisation . |
| 11 | I only wan na see the first bit . |
| 12 | No he wo n't , only gon na do the two , they 're doing the , the Ullswater one and the Eskdale one |
| 13 | You know we 're only gon na get the best from European initiatives when we start realizing we must deal with the present , in order to shape the future remembering the cruel lessons many of us have learned , particularly during the last twelve years . |