Example sentences of "only [adj] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on typing , only half listening to Rob 's grumbles , until he said suddenly , ‘ Have lunch with me , Merrill ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 3 | Last year , the Brigade received 1,835 applications for employment with only 69 coming from women . |
| 4 | The reports produced to date are internal documents , and only those referring to botany need be mentioned here . |
| 5 | Given this to be so , under the influence of the new analyses ( of poverty and of the youth labour-market ) , it was appreciated that the critical features of the youth question were not only those relating to church attendance , unorganized leisure , absence of esprit de corps and , at the extreme end of the spectrum of anxiety , juvenile delinquency . |
| 6 | BUT SUN 's 3RD QUARTER SHOWS ONLY MODEST SLOWING OF GROWTH |