Example sentences of "only come [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 2 | As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people . |
| 3 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 4 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 5 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 6 | True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source . |
| 7 | At Ashburnham , Brown created a late eighteenth-century sense of ‘ wilderness ’ that could only come from the utmost ingenuity ; sudden ‘ surprise ’ views of the house replaced the structured avenues and rigid vistas of earlier occupants . |
| 8 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 9 | The solutions they proffer only come from the limited range of their own experience . |
| 10 | He only comes to the odd party . |