Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
| 2 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 3 | You just only a piece of little metal . |
| 4 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 6 | He was able to give her not only the time , but the state of the tide at every bridge on the river . |
| 7 | She had glimpsed him afar only a moment or so ago . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 9 | Retirement usually brings with it not only the loss of the largest single activity in which people have engaged , but also a massive drop in income , standard of living and social status . |
| 10 | Now she saw the love that had gone into it , saw it for the home it was , sensed it as only a woman can . |
| 11 | Is it really only a sprain ? ’ |
| 12 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 13 | That night Berwick seethed with the dread question — was it indeed only a threat ? |
| 14 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |