Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no , I was only teasing , and I really only came in to tell you that I 'm leaving tomorrow , and to thank you for being so kind , and — well , to say goodbye . |
| 2 | Within a year he had given detailed and authoritative evidence to the House of Commons and been instrumental in the passage of two bills which abolished gaolers ' fees and enabled counties to pay for a proper service ; which allowed discharged defendants to be set at liberty in open court ; and which not only improved sanitation and health arrangements but made it obligatory for justices to have a concern for the health of prisoners . |
| 3 | ‘ Whereas with workflow management the document could find itself round the company to the right person — everyone has a PC on his or her desk — and you not only outsource a lot of the data entry work but get rid of the paper . ’ |
| 4 | Also and who not only helped on the day but also promoted the sale outside the NCT ensuring that we had plenty to sell . |
| 5 | We went on to the target , all the same , and we not only bombed , but obtained a photograph of the aiming point at the moment of bombing . |
| 6 | ‘ The initial screening is nearly completed and we now only have a small number of children left to trace . |
| 7 | B but until we moved from there to street and we still only had one bedroom and one down but a little tiny back kitchen . |
| 8 | And there not only good |
| 9 | These are electronic devices which are connected into the video transfer line , and they not only optimise the signal for copying but enable you to control the picture brightness and colour ; fades can be added as well . |
| 10 | You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment . |
| 11 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 12 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 13 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 14 | Africa had changed him , you see , and he still only in his early twenties . |
| 15 | It starts to rain , and it not only rains but it pours . |
| 16 | And it not only makes her look better — it makes her happy , say experts . |
| 17 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 18 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |
| 19 | But I probably only used about five guitars in total . |
| 20 | But he not only sings ‘ E lucevan ’ from Tosca ( in German ) , the ‘ Drinking Song ’ from Act I of Traviata ( without a Violetta ) ; he also has a very famous concluding number , one in excess of the other tenors , who also sang it . |
| 21 | But he honestly only wanted to defend his title with Williams . |
| 22 | But he still only just squeaked home , by a margin of 47,080 votes out of 1.9m cast . |
| 23 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |