Example sentences of "[vb past] only the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 2 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |
| 3 | As it turned out , by 1989 Britain got only the half-built Sizewell B. |
| 4 | But her family owned only the upper floor of Damiani 's old house . |
| 5 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 6 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 7 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 8 | Crohn 's disease was ileocolic in 10 cases , involved only the small bowel in nine patients , and 13 patients had colonic disease . |
| 9 | Police found only the broken-down Marina car , which had left Mrs Wilks , her 13-month-old son Mark , and her sister , Georgina Gough , 11 , stranded on the M50 near the Tewkesbury turn off . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 11 | We actually spent only the necessary amount to put the building into occupiable order . |
| 12 | Rose expressed only the infantile yearning and clinging . |
| 13 | As a businessman remarked only the other day : ‘ Every time I leave a meeting with pensions people , I feel wholly inadequate . |
| 14 | They listened but heard only the steady rain . |
| 15 | The reforms which he proposed — including measures to increase religious toleration , reduce legal disabilities of Jews , extend primary education , discipline local officials , strengthen respect for the law among rulers as well as ruled , extend peasant representation in the zemstvos and establish a new lower-level tier of zemstvos elected on an all-class franchise — touched only the outer fringes of noble privilege and executive power . |
| 16 | His arm reached out for Jane — and touched only the still-warm sheets . |
| 17 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 18 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 19 | I swore only the other week . |
| 20 | In Chase , for example , it was held that breasts were not included within the meaning of the term sexual , which covered only the primary sex organs . |
| 21 | The upper storey covered only the left hand side of the ground floor and it was up there that vehicle bodies took shape . |
| 22 | There was little consistency on record-keeping , some authorities having extensive personal files while others kept only the minimum information . |
| 23 | Imagine your response if , when you were depositing funds in a building society account , your attention was drawn to the fact that if you died only the original investment would be returned , but if you lived you would keep all of the interest . |
| 24 | Plato 's main ( if misguided ) objection to traditional art was that it represented only the limited reality of the empirical world . |
| 25 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 26 | So either they knew only the uncontaminated documents , which did nothing to strengthen what they believed to be an already strong case , or they knew the documents in their contaminated form , but knew also that they were forged , and kept quiet about them . |
| 27 | The National Progressive Party ( NPP ) led by former civil servant Reuben Meade , formed only the previous month , achieved a comprehensive victory in the general election held on Oct. 8 . |
| 28 | Without speaking they walked through the gap of the east window and on to the edge of the cliff and saw only the moon-bleached beach stretching north and south , the thin fringe of white foam . |
| 29 | Joseph peered in the directions indicated by the mandarin but saw only the scented shrubs and trees of the formal gardens . |
| 30 | By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler . |