Example sentences of "[vb pp] only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 32 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 33 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 34 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 35 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
| 36 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |
| 37 | This has given them a movie picture of the structural changes , built up from snapshots taken only a few seconds apart . |
| 38 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 39 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 40 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 41 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |
| 42 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 43 | This was confirmed only a few days ago when yet another visit to the garage became necessary , this time through no fault of the Metro 's . |
| 44 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 45 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 46 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |