Example sentences of "only [vb base] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 2 | I only eat at the Vetch-Retch these days when someone else is paying , which is much the same as saying when England wins at cricket . |
| 3 | As the cell proceeds down a pathway genes are switched on and off reflecting an internal programme , for external signals only act at the branch points , directing the cell along one or other of the paths open to it . |
| 4 | What is more , even when the valves of a really large specimen are fully closed , they only meet at the spikes on the edge . |
| 5 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 6 | I do n't remember the paper I only look at the front and the back on a Friday , well pick it up and have a look |
| 7 | She said they only look at the car 's registration number . |
| 8 | Cos my feeling is t they only look at the pictures , |
| 9 | Will the surveillance made possible by modern information technology only apply at the frontiers , or shall we have to live with it in our daily lives ? |
| 10 | Markets only work at the cost of perennial insecurity for producers . |
| 11 | The constraint that word beginnings only occur at the point where a previous word ends , prevents leave being found in believe and a ring being found in measuring . |