Example sentences of "only [verb] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality . |
2 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
3 | A feeling of mystery irradiates the scene at the house which he has so far only glimpsed from a distance : |
4 | Cooper , who is also a director of the first division club , only learned from a journalist that the receiver had been called in . |
5 | Such lèse-majesté could only come from a member of the public . |
6 | Carol had written it specially for Nicholson ; he could read some of the special nuances that would mean something to him and no one else , nuances that could only come from a friendship and working relationship spanning fifteen years . |
7 | Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics . |
8 | On the contrary , it had only resulted from a number of complex and unforeseeable political developments at court . |
9 | One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become . |
10 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |