Example sentences of "only [verb] your [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventing dental and gum disease will not only make your visits to the dentist more pleasant , but will mean that your mouth feels fresher and you can have a bright smile . |
| 2 | General Motors has two dealers in Britain — in Kingston and Manchester — and if you want a Syclone they will only lighten your wallet to the tune of £20,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ Lady Theodosia , ’ interrupted Aycliffe , ‘ I think you should know that his lordship — Lord Dacre , I mean — went to find your father not only to discover your identity for the purpose of saving your reputation , if he could . |
| 4 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
| 5 | The drawback is that if your debt is under £3000 you can only recover your costs on the County Court scale and the difference in scale can make it an expensive exercise . |
| 6 | T. O. Lloyd 's Empire to Welfare State only helps your inquiries in the broadest sense . |
| 7 | This means concentrating on the tow and only taking your eyes off the towplane for a brief moment . |
| 8 | If you continue to eat the same kind of foods , and only increase your intake to the normal 2,000 mark by eating a little bit more of the same , life and the measuring tape should hold no terrors for you . |