Example sentences of "only [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 3 | We have only examined the legal issues from a narrow perspective ( Walden 1993 ; Gränström 1993 ) , they could be the focus of a single seminar alone ( see Postscript , 317 ) . |
| 4 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 5 | Up till now we have only considered the potential uses of the various desktop publishing products but it is important to look at what can be done with the things that they produce . |
| 6 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 7 | Those who have only seen the northern stars may not realize how much more dramatic are those of the southern hemisphere . |
| 8 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 9 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 11 | If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at . |
| 12 | Well I have only got a few courts , |
| 13 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 14 | I 've only got a few books on differentiating . |
| 15 | You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’ |
| 16 | Mrs has already asked for her class to be after one and we 've only got the two classes to do . |
| 17 | They 've only got the little lights in that shop . |
| 18 | We 'd only had a few dates . |
| 19 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 20 | ‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’ |
| 21 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The economic downturn has only intensified the self-rejuvenating qualities of élites and multiplied the ways in which others are shut out . |
| 24 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 25 | Mutation studies have until very recently only detected a few defects . |
| 26 | He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner . |
| 27 | Ford had been appointed to the battalion in the dying weeks of the last war , and he had only experienced a few skirmishes , yet now he must lead the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers against the Emperor 's field army , a realization that naturally occasioned Ford constant trepidation . |
| 28 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 29 | ‘ We have only observed a few patches this week , ’ Fakhro said , ‘ most of it is still in the war zone ’ . |
| 30 | All these systems , inevitably , suffer from erosion of their database , since the Census is only taken every 10 years , and populations are not static . |