Example sentences of "only [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 2 | Your best bet is to seek out specialist footwear which will prove safe and comfortable in use , although not overspecified for the walking you have in mind — in other words , do n't buy a pair of heavy duty mountain boots if you only intend going for walks on country lanes ! |
| 3 | If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams , there are some pupils who 'd never get any education at all . |
| 4 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 5 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |
| 6 | The flashing tape is supplied in various widths , and only needs cutting to length with an old pair of scissors |
| 7 | We paid for it ourselves , but covered expenses by cutting soul-destroying administrative jobs which only involved keying in names . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 9 | The Convention 's remit to date only included dumping from ships . |
| 10 | The Convention 's remit has to date only included dumping from ships . |
| 11 | As with many ghosts this headless horseman is only permitted to travel between midnight and dawn . |
| 12 | Others , such as Eric Bremner , a 28-year-old physics teacher , had only decided to apply for water shares on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | McIllvanney had made the offer very dispassionately , but that businesslike approach only seemed to add to Ellen 's fury . |
| 14 | This issue is not only related to access into buildings . |
| 15 | Well you 've only got to go onto Longrow Smithy Row and see those trees there they 're like toy town trees . |
| 16 | That means you 've not only got to economise in manpower ; you 've got to bring new technology to bear on the problem . |
| 17 | Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for |
| 18 | You 've only got to look at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 20 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 21 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 22 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 23 | Buying this week what you bought last week is only going to end in failure . |
| 24 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 25 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 26 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
| 27 | The hearing admitted he had only agreed to appear in court if his wife and children were flown back to Britain with him at the cost of £4,000 . |
| 28 | Some organisations seek to channel the grapevine for productive purposes by producing house magazines which allow issues to be raised publicly which would otherwise only become known through rumour . |
| 29 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 30 | They only like to listen to rubbish . |