Example sentences of "only [vb base] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , all manufactured foods — that is , foods which go through a factory process and end up in a packet , tin or bottle — not only lose their vital vitamins , minerals and trace elements in the manufacturing process but also lose much of their colour , flavour and texture . |
| 2 | In the sphere of aesthetics , Lessing , Herder , and , a generation later , Friedrich Schlegel not only base their diverse theories on material or formulations put into currency by Winckelmann , but might be said to owe to him , as Schlegel put it , " the very idea of a history of art " , conceived as the development of a series of individual works towards a perfect beauty . |
| 3 | However , the collectable aspect of the genre is also a factor : fans not only want their favourite author 's books in hardback , they want the paperback , the graphic novel and the T-shirt as well . |
| 4 | Women , by contrast , not only support their own kin but their husband 's as well in some cases . |
| 5 | You 've only got to go up here , they only charge you ten pence for a sheet , get a great big , actually I could type . |
| 6 | Some of them are capable and sensible drivers , but as the records show there are those who not only put their own lives at risk , but that of others as well . |
| 7 | Phil 's just landed on it , it 's only cost him fifty quid ! |
| 8 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 9 | We , we hired one of these little ones , we did get a bigger for the , only cost us fifteen quid to hire three chain saws for the day . |
| 10 | He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ? |
| 11 | These warts are no danger to a human being because they only exude their poisonous fluid if the toad is being injured . |
| 12 | She only give her two bits of toast . |
| 13 | Very often PR consultancies only give their own executives ' names , but there are times when a journalist will want to " go straight to the horse 's mouth " and a contact within the client company can be very important . |
| 14 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 15 | And by the way , if we only give you fifty percent we 'll allow you to rattle our cage , which is a bit of a cheek really , but we 'll allow it . |
| 16 | They only give you one year labour . |
| 17 | If you only give us fifty percent , well I think we 've got funny conversations . |
| 18 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 19 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 20 | Leapor 's intellectual attainments are of no importance , and her poetic skills only obstruct her proper work in the kitchen . |
| 21 | Toads are poisonous , too , but like the cobra they prefer not to use their poison except as a last resort , although for a different reason — their poison glands only secrete their lethal dose when the toad is bitten hard by an attacker , and for the toad this is leaving matters far too late , with serious injury a strong possibility . |
| 22 | Yet Offred and Serena ( Faye Dunaway , who was more threatening in the terrible costume bash The Wicked Lady ) not only discuss their bizarre way of life , they argue about it . |
| 23 | If we only allow ourselves plain text as input , the output is always something of a guess . |
| 24 | But you only pay him fifty percent of his salary . |
| 25 | I do n't think we did this one properly did we ? you only use your right hand cos you push on that foot |
| 26 | The information on them is confidential and therefore it ensures that guests only see their own forms . |
| 27 | For example , it might be that all the relevant facts have already been ascertained and the findings of the High Court only concern their legal significance . |
| 28 | The zooids themselves are , or course , not preserved as fossils — we only have their vacated homes . |
| 29 | They can not insist that you only have their full service . |
| 30 | Ah Have you never noticed I only have them three days a week ? |