Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 2 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 4 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 5 | They owed her only the debt of Ruth . |
| 6 | There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here . |
| 7 | The Tsar rejected the Duma 's demands and permitted it only the briefest of sessions . |
| 8 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 9 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 10 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 11 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 12 | His own country offered him only the deathbed of his mother , and twelve years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 14 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 15 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 16 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 17 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 18 | This , no doubt , was what enabled Lewis , in telling the story of his life , to separate the departments of his life , telling us only the ‘ spiritual ’ story and leaving that part of himself which Newman would have called ‘ the concrete man ’ hidden in shadows . |
| 19 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 20 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |
| 21 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |