Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 2 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 3 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 4 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 5 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 6 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 8 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 9 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 10 | Alternatively , it will cost you only a couple of stamps ( Ed 's note : Do please always enclose an SAE ) to write and ask me before you do something . |
| 11 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 12 | They owed her only the debt of Ruth . |
| 13 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 14 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 15 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 16 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 17 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 18 | His own country offered him only the deathbed of his mother , and twelve years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 20 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 21 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 22 | On one occasion , he screamed for the guards , saying someone had stolen the contents of his Red Cross Parcel , leaving him only a tin of beans and of jam . |
| 23 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |