Example sentences of "[pron] only [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very sorry to have to report these words of the King 's , and I only do so because of my love of the truth . |
| 2 | ‘ I only have so much godfather rank . |
| 3 | I do n't know you only put so many down ca n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ You only suppose so — have you got any other reason ? ’ |
| 5 | We started to receive telephone calls telling us we only had so many hours to live . |
| 6 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 7 | We only have so much money . ’ |
| 8 | Women sometimes are virtuous , while at other times they only appear so in order to lure men to destruction . |
| 9 | Candida can convert to the hyphal form in infected areas of the skin or vagina , but it only does so partially — most of the Candida is still in the typical yeast form . |
| 10 | But it only goes so far . |
| 11 | If that sounds a touch mysterious itself , it only sounds so . |
| 12 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |
| 13 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 14 | He claimed he only did so to seal the sale of a barbecue which was damaged . |
| 15 | He only jumps so many times ? |
| 16 | I shall be suggesting in Part Two that the basic idea of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ , and of all value , arises similarly from what feels good or bad to us , and that here again this good and bad which is demoted to the role of what only feels so is ultimately the value which is really there in the world , besides which the good and bad of our social construction of reality is only a kind of useful fiction . |