Example sentences of "[pron] only [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour . |
| 2 | You know , this is how it was first and I only come across that but , how it went , they felt I was genuine I suppose and they could trust me and they left it as it was and I had me own building . |
| 3 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 4 | I only go for older women . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I only go to small shops now . |
| 6 | ‘ I only indulge on special occasions , darling . ’ |
| 7 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 8 | So that was my life , I only had about two years in |
| 9 | Therefore , in what now follows , since we shall be examining social reproduction , I only count as variable capital that which is actually apportioned to the workers , and surplus-value will constitute the whole of the social surplus-value . |
| 10 | I only count to four , then I move in close and stick the barrel of the gun in his throat . |
| 11 | I only comment at this stage that the latter exclusion would render the remedy of little practical use . |
| 12 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 13 | And in any case , I only deal with small domestic animals . ’ |
| 14 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 15 | I only play at Snap — |
| 16 | The committee 's just the cover , I only work for one man . |
| 17 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 18 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 19 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 20 | As Cnut himself only died on 12 November 1035 , it looks as though Alfred , and doubtless Edward too , were poised to act . |
| 21 | 'E only talks about everyday fings . |
| 22 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 23 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 24 | He was born in Leeds in 1789 and trained as an architect , but by 1830 had taken over the fight against child abuses from Robert Owen ( q.v. ) , and conducted a vigorous campaign for a ten-hour day , which only succeeded in 1847 with the passing of the Ten Hour Bill limiting the working hours of all those aged up to eighteen . |
| 25 | But I think the problem is that you you only concentrate on little bits at a time . |
| 26 | You only kissed in those days . |
| 27 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 28 | ‘ I expect you only know about rateable values an' that . ’ |
| 29 | You only need to one file combine , that 's one advantage , instead of three , so it 's about three times quicker . |
| 30 | So it does n't mean to say that you only behave at one end or the other . |