Example sentences of "only [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 2 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 3 | He was only going to see a man whose address I gave him — a creditor , I believe . ’ |
| 4 | After playing catch-me-if-you-can for so long , it looks as though Sun Microsystems Inc is only going to get a month 's headstart over the pack of Sparc-compatible builders which will be gunning for its superscalar Sparcstation 10 market — if US firm Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , Columbus , Ohio , has its way . |
| 5 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 6 | You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun . |
| 7 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 8 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 9 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 11 | One article alone — by Emily Gwathmey on the architecture of American cinemas — was worth the price of admission to the May/June issue ( although , of course , there is no price of admission unless you 're only flying to read the magazine ) . |
| 12 | We are only beginning to realize the significance of stone . |
| 13 | The UK is only beginning to realise the potential of partnerships ; education has been shy to join hands with business and vice versa , but it has to happen . |
| 14 | The problem is not only having to write the report but burdening countless other people with the chore of reading the bloody thing . |
| 15 | Go on , 'oppit ! ’ the old gent croaked , aiming at Broomhead with his stick and only managing to hit the side of the cart . |
| 16 | I 'm only trying to sell the time then ! |
| 17 | I am sorry , I am only trying to answer the question . |
| 18 | He felt Simon was only trying to prolong the visit . |
| 19 | Cranog Jones says he was only trying to de-tune the engine . |
| 20 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 21 | But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live . |
| 22 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 23 | The vet is only trying to assist the cat , but there is no way that the animal can associate the injection , or the forcible administration of a medicine , with its feeling healthier later on . |
| 24 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 25 | Our transformation matrices are therefore 15 × 15 in size , and the advantage of only needing to consider the trace to derive the character X is apparent ! |