Example sentences of "only [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose being realistic we could clean the car out in the evening because you only got to have the door open you 've got the interior light on |
| 2 | If the posts are only intended to curve the back , this can be better achieved by planing a curve on to the struts before they are glued to the back . |
| 3 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 4 | ‘ He only wants to see the child enjoy herself with her friends . ’ |
| 5 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 6 | This was not only designed to withstand the heat without soaking up liquid vinyl like blotting-paper , but it was supplied with a distinctive pattern on the back to indicate the direction of the paper grain . |
| 7 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 8 | Clubs or individuals would only need to pay the cost of travel to the USSR . |
| 9 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 10 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 11 | If the process is running , this will set up the required logical names and symbols , and the user then only has to type the symbol , specified by USERACCESSLOGICAL , to be connected to the process ( see Section 2.4 , LIFESPAN Configuration File ) . |
| 12 | Then the promoter only has to pay the band the guaranteed fee plus costs . |
| 13 | A boy who deliberately punctures another child 's bicycle tyre not only has to repair the tyre , but also must oil and polish the entire vehicle . |
| 14 | Like a wine connoisseur who only has to sniff the vintage to know how good it is , a cat can learn all it wants to know without actually trying the food . |
| 15 | When preparing it , the archaeologist not only has to consider the text , but also what illustrations to include . |
| 16 | Now the holder of speculative balances not only has to consider the yield on close substitutes such as bonds , but he also has to take into account any prospective capital gains or losses which may accrue when buying the bond . |
| 17 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 18 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 19 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 20 | Then when it appeared the problem had been solved , Morgan alleges he hid outside Docherty 's and overheard him ringing the journalist again to apologise for his outburst claiming it was only done to fool the player . |
| 21 | The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : — |
| 22 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 23 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 24 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 25 | He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds , to be paid after the siege was over or , in case of death , by his executors to certain of her relations ; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea , Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively : " To Whomsoever May Find This Missive , I , George Fleury , Being Then Deceased , " and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction . |
| 26 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 27 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 28 | I 've only got to pick the phone up and they 're up here like a shot . |
| 29 | If there 's anything I can do , you 've only got to say the word . |
| 30 | You 've only got to have the gas build up and bang . |