Example sentences of "only [vb infin] it [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 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 3 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 4 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 5 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 8 | He would only see it as a weakness to be used against her , or worse , as an attempt to ingratiate herself . |
| 9 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 10 | Evans did admit buying a can of petrol on the way to Birdlip , but he thought White would only use it as a threat to rob Mr Stokle , nothing too serious . |
| 11 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 12 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 13 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 14 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 15 | So it was a gun that was only , you 'd only find it in a building ? |