Example sentences of "only [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horses were quiet , three of them lying down , only Gary 's horse on its feet . |
| 2 | Secondly ( Chapter 3 ) , I shall examine not only Nizan 's resignation from the party and his subsequent death , but also his dramatic afterlife , a moment of political , ideological and cultural reproduction in which the complexity of his existence is obliterated beneath politically advantageous stereotypes : traitor , police spy , rebel , anti-hero . |
| 3 | I phone Yvonne and William 's house but there 's only William 's voice on the answer-machine . |
| 4 | Paige would have risen , too , only Travis 's hand on her wrist exerted enough force to keep her where she was . |
| 5 | Only Hyde 's fear of his own death stops him from killing me . |
| 6 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
| 7 | IN ENGLAND ‘ Chuck ’ Fleetwood-Smith is probably remembered , if at all , merely for having twisted down 87 overs and taken only Hammond 's wicket for 298 runs when England scored 903 for 7 at The oval in 1938 . |
| 8 | I think she was a pest ; she sounds like a pest ; though admittedly we hear only Gustave 's side of the story . |
| 9 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
| 10 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
| 11 | It was n't only Chilcott 's promise of a tidy sum of money and six horses if he would take Topaz as his spouse which made Manfro want her . |
| 12 | His former manager Jimmy Lumsden admitted that only Dziekanowski 's reputation for the high life enabled City to snap up the ball-playing genius from Celtic for a bargain £250,000 . |
| 13 | So it is not only Earth 's distance from the Sun that is important for living things , but the way the solid parts of the Earth are spread across the globe . |
| 14 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |