Example sentences of "only [vb infin] them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 2 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 3 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 4 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 5 | ( 110 , p.225 n.2 ) Possibly such claims were put forward even earlier , although one can only infer them from the appearance of closed crowns on the English coinage in the reign of Henry VII . |
| 6 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |