Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] only the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You talk of space and time : I know only the difference between the sea and the land . |
| 2 | I remember nothing about who I was with or what the films were , I remember only the interval . |
| 3 | ‘ But Sir Thomas — I suppose only the person who served them could be sure . ’ |
| 4 | And here I have only the sky above my face . |
| 5 | I see only the face of Siobhan , lovely and awake in her hospital bed , her introductions and information , her Jimmy Shawns , her Rorys and Frankie Mulligans and Patsy McCauleys , and her words , Do you believe , do you believe in God ? |
| 6 | I see only the seal profile , the rounded and compressed nose , one brown and masked eye . |
| 7 | " Or you sell only the herd and grow corn on the land and make tizwin , enough to keep you drunk for seven years . " |
| 8 | There is an alphabetical table , and also a chronological table in case you know only the date of the statute . |
| 9 | Through the grease on the window you see only the house next door . |
| 10 | You buy only the week , or weeks you want to use , at a fraction of the cost of purchasing the whole property . |
| 11 | The full address will be The general formula here is that , with : where we consider only the integer part of the division . |
| 12 | If the remainder is R : where we consider only the integer part of the division . |
| 13 | We know only the existence of our sensations , percepts , and thoughts . |
| 14 | If we keep only the email message and lose the medium we give up much valuable information . |
| 15 | We use only the ME observations as the CMA count rate is typically an order of magnitude lower . |
| 16 | Furthermore , we have only the patient 's word for what he or she smoked ; such estimates are often wildly ‘ out ’ and can be affected by what the patient thinks the doctor wants to hear . |
| 17 | Even with this explanation , one is not necessarily convinced that Ulimwengu was in the wrong , since we have only the Government 's side of the story . |
| 18 | The Siege is commonly claimed to be the first English opera , though with what justice it is difficult to say since we have only the libretto and stage-designs . |
| 19 | Straightforward examples can be seen at Brampton in Norfolk , where the extensive ribbon developments are confined to the junction itself and the main roads radiating east , south and west , and at Braintree , where they occupy only the west and south-west approach roads at the expense of the staggered road junction itself ( fig. 6A and B ) . |
| 20 | If a university takes further students , as nearly all have , they receive only the student fee , which is between £800 and £2500 less . |
| 21 | If the guests take the room , they pay only the balance . |
| 22 | They use only the Gospel of Matthew and , like Jesus himself , as well as the Essenes or Zadokites of two centuries before , expound upon the prophetic books of the Old Testament . |
| 23 | The chemicals have to be carefully selected so that they affect only the tin oxide and nothing else . |
| 24 | " They have only the shade of the trees . " |
| 25 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 26 | They see only the work that is still to be done . |
| 27 | But in chapter 16 Dathan and Abiram make clear that they see only the prospect of eventual death in the wilderness if Moses continues as their leader , and in chapter 14 death in battle seems only too imminent . |