Example sentences of "[vb past] only [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 3 | He had a pious sense of his own importance and had always thought all these acts were directed at him , from which he had only escaped by good luck . |
| 4 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 5 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 6 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 7 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 8 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 9 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 10 | For social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer , evolutionary theory demonstrated scientifically what earlier social scientists had only grasped in moral terms . |
| 11 | His win/loss playing record for the year up to 23/3/92 was 20/3 , bettered only by one player , Perez Roldan , who had only played in one tournament , in Casablanca . |
| 12 | Whereas the national monthly output of iron-ore had sunk from 45.87 million pudy in 1913 to 0.98 by September 1922 , and cast-iron from 21.43 to 0.94 , flax yarn had only sunk from 0.236 to 0.104 . |
| 13 | So far he had only spoken to minor figures of the tragedy which befell Alexander III at Kinghorn . |
| 14 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 15 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 16 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 17 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 18 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 19 | He pointed out that during previous planning permissions for Sunday working the plant had only worked on two Sundays in three years . |