Example sentences of "he [vb -s] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to be friends with America because he thinks only American intervention will secure his aims ( he offered in the Gulf war to send 200,000 Sikhs to fight on the American side ) . |
| 2 | In the world container leasing league he has only two rivals : Genstar has one million boxes , Tiphook 400,000 and third-ranking Trans-American 380,000 ( see graph ) . |
| 3 | If he has only tinned fruits and custard in his larder , he should not serve them up as coupe de fruits avec creme anglaise . |
| 4 | He has only eight men , and a lot of dogs . |
| 5 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeltsin … left the Congress because he understands he has only one partner left with whom he can talk . |
| 7 | ‘ And yet , he does not experience the situation full-time , he has only one view of it . |
| 8 | He has only one investment goal . |
| 9 | The artist , especially if he has only one specimen to work from and can not therefore generalize , must paint what he sees ; the greatest of artists in this line will , however , agree with Josef Wolf that ‘ we see distinctly only what we know thoroughly ’ , a maxim he adapted from Goethe . |
| 10 | ‘ He has only one thing on his mind — to be famous , ’ says one sculptor . |
| 11 | Whatever a Profitboss does , whatever a Profitboss thinks , he has only one thing in mind : the end-result . |
| 12 | What he describes is a series of patrilineal descent groups , each person necessarily belonging to one because he has a father ; and necessarily belonging to only one because he has only one father . |
| 13 | Under the new system he has only one seat . |
| 14 | He hesitates only one moment . |
| 15 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |