Example sentences of "only [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 2 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 3 | This is reflected in the annual subscriptions , which have been only £10 for family membership , and £2 for a junior membership . |
| 4 | PLEASE only telephone for information if you are REALLY interested in the item for sale . |
| 5 | WHY should pensioners living in ‘ sheltered ’ accommodation pay only £5 for TV licences ? |
| 6 | We have decided human nature is bad , that people only work for money , respond only to the profit principle , and must be controlled by threats and punishments . |
| 7 | In Social Security Appeal Tribunals , the claimant will receive only compensation for loss of earnings ( if any ) and travelling expenses . |
| 8 | Oesophageal acidity and motility were monitored under ambulatory conditions for 24 hours on the fourth day of treatment , after a wash out period of 10 days during which patients received only antacids for relief of symptoms . |
| 9 | Unless the objectives outlined in the first year of the Medau Society 's Development Plan are achieved only applications for support to specific projects in line with the Council 's strategy would be considered in future . |
| 10 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 11 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 12 | ‘ We had only tents for shelter and we tried to make concrete blocks . |
| 13 | By then , the team will have marched 10 miles a day for a fortnight to reach base camp and endured temperatures of -40C and galeforce winds — with only tents for shelter . |
| 14 | The next example shows how the reported form may sometimes have the reporting clause embedded as a parenthesis , so that the whole sentence resembles , in word order , the structure of quoted speech , but with only commas for punctuation : |
| 15 | Most of us do , of course , sell lines other than books , even if only cards for Book Tokens . |