Example sentences of "only [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 32 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |
| 33 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 34 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 35 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 36 | ‘ Of course we were only invited for ten days or so . ’ |
| 37 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 38 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 39 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 40 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 41 | You only pay for qualifying days . |
| 42 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
| 43 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 44 | We only went for two days . |
| 45 | I only go for older women . ’ |
| 46 | The collective community charge is paid by landlords of some properties where people normally only stay for short periods . |
| 47 | A number of our highly successful programmes currently only run for twenty weeks a year , such as ‘ In Business ’ and ‘ Europhile ’ — and we will now expand their run for the entire year . |
| 48 | We will only pay for alternative accommodation if this is NECESSARY . |
| 49 | The whole trial only continued for 12 days . |
| 50 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 51 | Most of us only share for financial reasons . |
| 52 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 53 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 54 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 55 | Ideally the initial investigation should be total colonoscopy as this will not only examine for malignant lesions but offers an opportunity to assess the mucosa for angiodysplasia . |
| 56 | In the first place , the scheme only operates for five years , with no guarantee of continuation . |
| 57 | The most recent was in the early 1980s , during the first couple of years of the Thatcher government but that only lasted for 18 months . |
| 58 | Then there are batteries for when we 're stopped , but they 'd only last for forty-five minutes , eh ? , if we were n't plugged into the ground supply at a station . |
| 59 | Mr Jarvis says he 's delighted with the coursework pupils have produced on the film , but that the scheme can only continue for another couple of years . |
| 60 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |