Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] only [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 2 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 3 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 4 | So that 's really you literally only have to listen to the phone call and turn up . |
| 5 | To holiday here you not only get to feel a lot closer to God 's earth , but you also get to feel closer to your fellow man , and there 's not many places that make you feel like that ! |
| 6 | It takes a complete turn to replace the shell and prepare to fire , so you not only fail to shoot this turn but you can not shoot next turn either . |
| 7 | You not only have to deal with people questioning her musical ability , but also just that constant male assault . |
| 8 | Because in fact to do all of our assignments you probably only need to do an average of one a day . |
| 9 | You actually only need to plan three or four exercise sessions a week in order to become fit . |
| 10 | We nevertheless only need to postulate the forcible imposition of that inner band of Minoan trading settlements — not the whole trading empire . |
| 11 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 12 | To these people , we not only have to offer an attractive package but to be more visible , especially during these troubled times . |
| 13 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 14 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 15 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 16 | Hence , we not only need to eat and drink , but we also enjoy it ; and friendships not only give us the security of being in a group , but also pleasure . |
| 17 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 18 | As black children go through the education system , they not only learn to speak English , they also gain qualifications , which help them with jobs , and acquire British cultural values , which enable them to assimilate . |
| 19 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |