Example sentences of "only [verb] [prep] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the fact that the royal scholars had found conservative rather than revolutionary arguments to support their case only added to their appeal , and Henry read the Collectanea with interest and approval in the late summer of 1530 . |
| 2 | This had become a source of irritation to her companions and only added to their resentment . |
| 3 | Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday said : ‘ The fact that these allegations are made in a book generally praising the conduct of British troops only adds to their seriousness . |
| 4 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 5 | Young women were not only constrained by their class position and by unemployment , but also by their male peers and by their position within the family . |
| 6 | they were only going on their reputation |
| 7 | People who are self-employed are not included in SERPS and can therefore only provide for their retirement with a personal pension plan plus the basic state pension . |
| 8 | Yesterday , the court heard that Mrs Gilfoyle had told her husband that a woman friend of his would only move into their home ‘ over my dead body . ’ |
| 9 | I mean … people who only succeed through their family connections depress me , ’ she went on frantically , her head spinning at the glittering lures being dangled before her eyes . |
| 10 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 11 | A criminal bankrupt and a person who has been subject to a previous bankruptcy can only apply for their discharge after the end of five years from the commencement of their bankruptcy ( s 280(1) ) . |
| 12 | The Phillips curve was regarded as an inescapable constraint on policy action which the authorities could only ignore at their peril . |
| 13 | some people they only live for their partner do n't they and a thing like that get a |
| 14 | Wood-boring ambrosia beetles ( of the species Xyleborus ferrugineus ) are parasitized by bacteria that not only live in their host 's body but also use the host 's eggs as their transport into a new host . |
| 15 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |