Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] only [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 2 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 3 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 4 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 5 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |
| 6 | Even if you think you 're only h leaving it for only a minute . |
| 7 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
| 8 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 9 | He took it , but held it for only a moment . |