Example sentences of "we only [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember coming into the store one Saturday at five minutes to four , I apologised for being so late and you said to me ‘ That 's alright Sir , we only shoot the last three ’ . |
| 2 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 3 | You see , we only get the German news in this Place , and of course that does n't mean a thing ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 5 | We only saw the last |
| 6 | You see we only had the one van , you s cos the one van was wanted to go to Wicken on a Saturday again . |
| 7 | As Bourn was such a new station , we only had the bare essentials in the way of equipment , mainly the Stevenson Screen with its thermometers , an aneroid barometer in the office and the aforementioned teleprinter . |
| 8 | We only switched the last few minutes on . |
| 9 | We only cleared the vital point by 100 yards . |
| 10 | We only see the worst , and some of those are fairly horrible , I can tell you . |
| 11 | We only want the best teams on a project , if it is to stay on schedule . |
| 12 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 13 | And we only wanted the melted chocolate , we could have had a sticky finger then could n't we ? |
| 14 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 15 | we only address the urgent things . |