Example sentences of "only come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to no avail ; his ears would only come forward momentarily , and would then return to the backwards position again . |
| 2 | Yet Citrine was working within a specific , more individualist business culture and , though change could only come slowly , collective discussion remained the only antidote to bureaucracy that he ever really understood . |
| 3 | It will only come closer around dawn . |
| 4 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 5 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 6 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 7 | Sir Robin Day searched a long memory for some event remotely comparable , and could only come up with Edwina 's famous threat to handcuff herself to the rostrum until hanging was brought back . |
| 8 | No , we could only come up with , I forgot , but it was something Renault , and we could only think of Renault . |
| 9 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 10 | Total accountability for every part of the aircraft can only come later . |
| 11 | But if she did n't take it back he would only come along and ask for it She was surprised he had n't already . |
| 12 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 13 | You 've got the landlords who are the en the enemies , you , you 've got rich peasants who are broadly gon na be opposed to you and , and will only come in on your side at the very latest stage when they 've realized that and then you 've got the middle peasants who are wavering in the middle but will probably support you mu certainly much more easily . |
| 14 | I mean there was a big battle to get women into the Working Men 's Clubs , because they could only come in as men 's guests . |
| 15 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 16 | But she knew that , if she did n't turn up on the beach , Ross would only come back to fetch her . |
| 17 | Well that one was the most restrictive because that you had to go , you could go any time between was it eight and eleven in the morning , but you could only come back either something like quarter to five , quarter to , no quarter to six was it ? |
| 18 | will only come much nearer when male doctors |
| 19 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 20 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 21 | Could you only come out if your parents collected you ? |
| 22 | As we drive to McDonald 's , Blake explains that the company can probably only come down to about one p.p.m. zinc , and only then if it spends a lot of money . |
| 23 | The price of organic food can only come down with bigger subsidies to organic farmers . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 25 | I wish that pressure in the House would prove enough , but I am realist enough to know that change — real change — will only come now if we push from every side . ’ |
| 26 | The private contractors will only come once a week … |
| 27 | They will only come together for official royal engagements , when the Queen specially requests their company at Balmoral or other royal houses , and for the sake of the children , William and Harry . |
| 28 | If other countries resist a realignment , then a real appreciation can only come about if their inflation falls below Germany 's , at the cost of slower growth . |
| 29 | We support the commitment in that Agreement that ‘ any change in the status of Northern Ireland would only come about with the consent of the majority of the people of Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 30 | A union will only come about by 1997 if a substantial majority of Community members agree it should . |