Example sentences of "[vb past] only [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 2 | In the abstract we used only the numbers from the last six weeks of each treatment period to avoid a changeover effect . |
| 3 | In the other condition subjects viewed the same films in the same manner but described only the risks and potential risks in each section of film . |
| 4 | It reported only the facts of the affair and drew no conclusions . |
| 5 | Henceforth , he commanded only the police in the city of Colombo . |
| 6 | Chancellor Franz Vranitzky in late March carried out a minor Cabinet reshuffle which affected only the posts held by his own Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ) . |
| 7 | The news came only a weeks after another major Abingdon employer , Abingdon Carpets , announced a hundred and fifty jobs would go with the transfer of its distribution centre from the town to Bradford . |
| 8 | Channel 3 played safe with a re-run of Taggart ( ITV ) , which I suppose you could argue showed only the Scots in a bad light . |
| 9 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 10 | An article appeared in the Nazi newspaper Danziger Vorposten claiming that the Danzig Harbour Board served only the interests of the Poles and should therefore be abolished . |
| 11 | They threatened only the privileges of the poor . |
| 12 | As nasty as Blissett 's challenge may have appeared , he transgressed only the laws of football and was rightly punished by the football authorities . |
| 13 | The Bush shed was in turn supplanted by an even more abbreviated form , the butterfly shed , which covered only the platforms . |
| 14 | Curious about everything ; about the men who paid so little attention to her , wondering where they were taking her ; about Allen , wondering what he was doing ; about the Friar and what he would think when he found them gone ; about herself that she should be so indifferent to her circumstances and so little fearful ; and a little curious , but least curious of all , about the Friar 's sack , curious as to why if it contained only the remnants of a meal he had been so concerned to hide it and so uneasy at leaving it in their care . |
| 15 | Although Sherek saw only the drafts of the first two acts , he agreed at once to do so . |
| 16 | He remembered only the hands . |
| 17 | ( As to the last , it should perhaps be remembered that both the collected credit operators and some of the finance houses have this facility too , although Mr Langhorn said only the agencies do it . ) |
| 18 | He said only the Tories offered hope to small businesses and attacked Labour 's minimum wage policy , commenting : ‘ One man 's minimum wage would be another man 's P45 . ’ |
| 19 | He said only the Tories offered hope to small businesses and attacked Labour 's minimum wage policy , commenting : ‘ One man 's minimum wage would be another man 's P45 . ’ |
| 20 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 21 | After a year , I had only the boots , but I knew that if somebody of importance would approve the idea then the rest would follow . |
| 22 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 23 | Women 's eyes detected only the signs . |
| 24 | There remained only the horses and human muscle . |