Example sentences of "only [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 2 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 3 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |
| 4 | The general technique used for stationery decoration is to cover the flowers with a clear adhesive film , which not only protects them from damp or dirt , but also holds them in position . |
| 5 | I 'd only experienced them through other people and it was something I could n't bear to think about , really , because my mother had died of it and all I could remember was a series of silences and around the silence was terror to me . |
| 6 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 7 | She only had them in bloody September like . |
| 8 | ‘ By saying that the documentary needed to face up to the frauds , if only to distinguish them from sincere practitioners . ’ |
| 9 | The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children . |