Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | okay now I 'm here and I am not only gon na be I mean now people |
| 2 | I 'm here only to collect my car . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me , Chief Inspector , I 've got a one-track mind and I 'm here only to locate the man called Colt , the Englishman who murdered an Agency man in Athens . ’ , |
| 4 | I 'm not only shivering , I 'm shrivelling away . |
| 5 | So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else . |
| 6 | Now , the other two subjects I 'm really only dealing because the people responsible are , are not here in the flesh this afternoon but Alyd the provincial advocate and I I think of Bill that 's also gone too , er yes he he has , he has had to leave this afternoon . |
| 7 | I 'm really only looking for my place on the bandwagon . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was not only speaking out on behalf of Manchester United but their thousands of fans as well . ’ |
| 9 | I was not only losing weight but I felt better : fitter , more alert , more vigorous . |
| 10 | Before she died I was still only doing plays in garages wearing weird costumes . |
| 11 | This connection is normally secured theoretically and depends upon well- established law-like relationships which are not only expressed mathematically but also indicate measurement units , as in the case of the thermometer . |
| 12 | ( Platform 3 was used at least once last summer to house Hinton Manor for an hour or two on the wonderful occasions when Aberystwyth saw two standard gauge steam engines — Keith Lucas ) Some alterations are being discussed to the run round facilities , which are now only used regularly by the petroleum traffic . |
| 13 | The new version has involved a complete rewrite of the software to give advanced features which are usually only found in Windows and desk-top publishing programmes . |
| 14 | Now Castle also includes obligations to make further payments under existing agreements , which were previously only noted as commitments in the notes to the accounts . |
| 15 | It is a word which is mostly only used when we discuss Hitler 's treatment of the Jews or when we consider Cambodia . |
| 16 | Alan Callandine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development Officer , has commented that this is a great opportunity to ride behind this wonderful locomotive which is normally only seen hauling main steam charters . |
| 17 | Mill analyses material objects into ‘ permanent groups of possibilities of sensation ’ and reports finding , among these groups , ‘ one ( my own body ) which is not only composed , like the rest , of a mixed multitude of sensations and possibilities , but is also connected , in a peculiar manner , with all my sensations ’ . |
| 18 | It should also include an analysis of what modern people understand by the very concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , for it is a concept , which is not only used by social scientists , but which is also significant in ordinary discourse . |
| 19 | Brittle bone disease , or osteoporosis , which is usually only seen in the elderly , is now appearing in these young women , of whom there are several thousand in Scotland . |
| 20 | Searching is limited to the use of the printed index , which is usually only to plant names . |
| 21 | It was only in the hotels and catering industry that we encountered a widespread use of temporary working which was not only called casual working by the parties concerned but which also was likely to be , or had been , unequivocally accepted as such by labour courts . |
| 22 | Thus Senghor was able to build a political regime which was not only founded on a democratic tradition two generations old , but also had to accommodate a major countervailing influence to that of the state in the form of the Brotherhood . |
| 23 | As he had lived alone before his stroke , he had to hire 24-hour nursing help , and a nurse accompanied him whenever he went out , which was initially only to attend for rehabilitation care . |
| 24 | Indeed , behind the fears and accusations which surrounded the villainous working-class ‘ scorcher ’ , his emancipated female accomplice , and the unruly cyclist juror we can perhaps sense the vaguely incoherent feeling that the democratic bicycle — which was now only upsetting the respectable pleasures of a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in the countryside — was representative of a force that might be calculated to upset a few other things as well . |
| 25 | This is , without doubt , a book for professionals who are not only thinking about quality , but who want to instill a fundamental change in the way people think about and do their work . |
| 26 | So when the wind blows and the rain descends , as it has this week , you are not only upskirted and damp , but you feel guilty too . |
| 27 | What is different in the Banbury situation erm is that fact that you are not only talking about one school and it 's education because Banbury School draws not only it 's own eleven to sixteen year old children , who have the option to go forward to the sixth form , but of course all the children that come from the Warriner School at Bloxham , all the children that come from Drayton School , and a certain number of the children who might come from the Roman Catholic Secondary School in Banbury , so there are a whole lot more people involved than just the actual children , and that 's what made Banbury a hybrid . |
| 28 | Remember that you are not only burning up calories while you walk , but your increased metabolic rate will keep burning up calories when you finish walking . |
| 29 | If you are not time recording then you are not only falling short of the quality standards but you are also likely to be under-billing . |
| 30 | but you , you ca n't make that public and you are still worried that it can go too far to the left and therefore you , you , you 've got a range of , of erm quite moderate proposals which come in which , i if they were implemented , would restrain and would maintain the su the support of the ninety percent , th that you are still only seeking to antagonize really those , those landlords who are not going to be prepared to come back within the system . |