Example sentences of "only [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 2 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 3 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 4 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 5 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 6 | You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment . |
| 7 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 8 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 10 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 11 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 12 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 13 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 14 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 15 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 16 | By taking certain needs to be universal , classical theory not only committed itself to a particular approach , but also defined its subject-matter . |
| 17 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 18 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 19 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 20 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 21 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 22 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 23 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 24 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 25 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 26 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 27 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 28 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 29 | We can only approach them on a narrow front , because of this river valley 's construction . |
| 30 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |