Example sentences of "only [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 3 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 4 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 5 | Of great importance was the real incentive to [ Bunn ] not only to dis-embarrass himself of a thoroughly unsatisfactory debtor by getting a guarantee secured by a charge on a registered property , but also of producing a satisfactory answer to the awkward interest being shown by those at London Head Office . |
| 6 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 7 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 8 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 9 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 10 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 11 | In this series I hope to not only provide you with a list of the endangered animals , but also some fascinating information about each animal and the way it lives . |
| 12 | You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment . |
| 13 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 14 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 15 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 17 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 18 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 19 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 20 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 21 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 22 | ‘ Our drivers can only negotiate them at a maximum of 15mph , ’ he said . |
| 23 | By taking certain needs to be universal , classical theory not only committed itself to a particular approach , but also defined its subject-matter . |
| 24 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 25 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 26 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 27 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 28 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 29 | And I was in there until I left Colchester , but what , what happened , you see when you first go in they only class you as a a class three tradesman . |
| 30 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |