Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 2 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 3 | Now I eat only one meal a day |
| 4 | If I make only one quote from er the sec second reading from the Noble Lord , Lord of Hadleigh what he said was that there that er er er the an any members appointed should be genuinely locally appointed . |
| 5 | Only then the nymphs were retreating at speed , in a flurry of droplets and giggles , so I got only fleeting views of slender backs and rounded behinds . |
| 6 | I got only wrong answer |
| 7 | To Brian Wilson and other defenders of the union , I say only one thing . |
| 8 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 9 | I want only one thing : peace for the new generation and progress . |
| 10 | Why have I seen only three Harmony guitars for sale in your classified section since 1990 ? |
| 11 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
| 12 | And I know only one way you do that . |
| 13 | I discovered only last year that he quickest way to forget problems is by leaving terra firma several hundred feet below you — the less firm — the more terra … |
| 14 | Of the town itself I remember only two things . |
| 15 | Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school , about which I remember only three things . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm so sad that I missed you , ’ Lubor Ondrus said soulfully , explaining , ‘ I returned only last evening from a few days ’ holiday . ’ |
| 17 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |
| 18 | Perversely , it was Marx 's anarchist adversary , Michael Bakunin , who displayed greater sensitivity not only to the position of the Slavs in 1848 , but also to the close relationship of nationalism and peasant radicalism at that time — ‘ I demand only one thing : that every people , that every tribe , great and small , be given the full opportunity and right to act according to its will ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ On all other nights I ask only four questions , / but tonight I have another one : / How long will this circle of terror continue ? / Hunter and hunted , beater and beaten , / when will this madness end ? ’ |
| 21 | I knew only one obligation : to play the piano well . |
| 22 | In the gold I saw only dead artefacts from some magical past . |
| 23 | ‘ Not now , ’ he replied , ‘ as yet I detect only faint glimmerings . ’ |
| 24 | I thought only National Savings was allowed to offer interest without income tax . |
| 25 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 26 | I did only one series of interviews with him and I do n't think it rubbed off on me to that extent . |
| 27 | Yet I won only four line-outs that afternoon . |
| 28 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 29 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 30 | I had only one session with him . |