Example sentences of "only [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
| 2 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 3 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |
| 4 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 5 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 6 | I only asked a polite question . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | I says only got a pink form if you 've got a fixed penalty . |
| 9 | only got a little belly . |
| 10 | Only got a little bit left . |
| 11 | The Headmaster is disappointed that Geoffrey only recieved a standard reply from the Prime Minister 's office — not even signed by John Major . |
| 12 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 13 | Then , it only commanded a small proportion of the UK biscuit market . |
| 14 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 15 | And did so , with a smiling , ‘ It makes me very glad I only ate a light lunch today . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the cottages behind their stone sea-walls had real charm , others were plain and cramped and only borrowed a little grace from their situation . |
| 17 | It was not primarily ideas of democracy , which , as we have seen , only enjoyed a diluted existence in the eighteenth century , but popular action , and above all the eruption of the French people into politics in the years of the Revolution , that transformed the modern history of democracy . |
| 18 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 19 | What intrigued me most , however , was the arrangement of four dangling neck-ties , like swaying cobras , which only needed a squatting snakecharmer to really hypnotise . |
| 20 | No one is absolutely certain of the reasons for the collapse , yet it only needed a sudden fear that share prices would drop to produce panic . |
| 21 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 22 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 23 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 24 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 25 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 26 | I only died a small death at his words and the way he said them . |
| 27 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 28 | ‘ Only saw a dim outline , really . |
| 29 | It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house . |
| 30 | ‘ They put the sniffer over it but only did a perfunctory search . |