Example sentences of "only [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
| 3 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 4 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 5 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 6 | As the most informative booklet points out , he only avoided the later excesses of the Nazis by conveniently dying in July 1933 . |
| 7 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 8 | We have only examined the legal issues from a narrow perspective ( Walden 1993 ; Gränström 1993 ) , they could be the focus of a single seminar alone ( see Postscript , 317 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |
| 10 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 11 | For years those fans have suffered the frustration of supporting the team through thick and thin only to see the best seats at big matches filled by the detested ‘ fur-coat brigade ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid I only got the briefest details on you , " he said by way of explanation . |
| 13 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 14 | ‘ Says he only wants the best men up the top of the tower . |
| 15 | He not only subdued the local Britons but appears to have stamped his authority fairly firmly upon his neighbouring kings . |
| 16 | Up till now we have only considered the potential uses of the various desktop publishing products but it is important to look at what can be done with the things that they produce . |
| 17 | Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ? |
| 18 | This political murder only aggravated the political divisions within France . |
| 19 | Er , no , I only want the bare essentials and |
| 20 | We only want the best teams on a project , if it is to stay on schedule . |
| 21 | The debate on fox hunting has become unnecessarily complex and that can only suit the pro hunters because the basic objections to hunting are obscured . |
| 22 | It will not only include the functional constraints listed above , but will use the product control facility in order to ensure that changes maintain the integrity of the design . |
| 23 | I am sure this would help many fishkeepers not only to provide the right amounts for their fish but also to use the correct food types/varieties of which there must be several dozens on the market . |
| 24 | Those who have only seen the northern stars may not realize how much more dramatic are those of the southern hemisphere . |
| 25 | We can only identify the proper criteria correctly if we accept that medical treatment in general ought to be divided , for our purposes , into two classes . |
| 26 | It crashed nearby , and started burning — I only hope the poor devils were dead before they hit the deck , although we all instinctively gave a yell of applause , and I felt rather conscience-stricken afterwards . ’ |
| 27 | This is not shown on my machine , the only other machine I think that this could be one of the blue knobs behind the H.C.L. levers but these only show the two settings N+T . |
| 28 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 29 | Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words . |
| 30 | However , the structure of attitudes does not only comprise the explicit justifications and criticisms which might be advanced by the attitude-holder . |