Example sentences of "they only [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British embassy official wrote to the Foreign office , " It seems that they only got a fourth-floor berth at the Excelsior … because some Persian industrialist vacated his suite . " |
| 2 | They did of course no such thing for membership was on a voluntary basis and they only represented the local Councils who had sent them . |
| 3 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 4 | They only lasted a short period , but the Command engineer followed up at once with proper drawings aid specified the correct heat resisting metal . |
| 5 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 6 | The units are power-free in the sense that they only require a flow-through of water to function . |
| 7 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 8 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 9 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 10 | The gates , they only had a single er they did n't have gates on either side here , they just got the one set of gates . |
| 11 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 12 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 13 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said very prettily , ‘ I can put up with mosquitoes since they only take a little nibble . |
| 15 | The wardens originally received twenty shillings for their work plus expenses ; now they only receive a small allowance towards their expenses , which is paid after they have served their two year term . |
| 16 | I am told that Piper were so glad to land this important order that they only charged an additional £5 per aircraft for the modification . |
| 17 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 18 | They only need a basic 4-channel radio to fly them and , if you already possess such a set , have much to commend them . |
| 19 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 20 | They call these intelligence , even though they only represent a small part of the mind 's capacity . |
| 21 | Finally , one can always sell the gold and any good jeweller is likely to be interested ; in my experience , however , they only offer a modest premium over the world 's spot price and , quite honestly , it is a meagre reward for all the effort . |
| 22 | They only wan na small place , you do n't wan na a big |
| 23 | Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers . |
| 24 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 25 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 26 | These rooms they only have a certain |
| 27 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 28 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 29 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 30 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |