Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's only bloody luxury I 've got in life , smoking . |
2 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |
3 | It 's not , it 's not only that Doctor it 's in your mind , you know you |
4 | Only that morning she had suffered humiliation at the hands of a shop assistant in Harrods , and anger still raged through her . |
5 | Only that morning she had stood , she , Kitty Bainbridge , had actually stood in a queue for nail polish , and when it came to her turn there was no more left . |
6 | She was certain , in fact , because only that morning she had dusted and polished it . |
7 | Only that morning he had been summoned to the tent of the bearded one . |
8 | It 's a symbolic embarrassment to have man in a graveyard outside a church , not getting any sanctuary , especially when you consider not only that background you 've mentioned , Jesus himself actually said that he had nowhere to lay his head . |
9 | I 've only brown bread you do n't mind do you ? |
10 | Only this morning we heard a rumour that an attempt is to be made to gain the approval of the commonalty to the protector being crowned king instead of Edward ! ’ |
11 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
12 | ‘ And only this morning I was able to announce that seasonally adjusted unemployment has fallen . ’ |
13 | Let's give it the same conditions , only this time we use that as the bait . ’ |
14 | Same plan , only this time we all retreated back some thirty feet so that the wily rabbits would n't pick up our scent , to give the bird a chance . |
15 | ‘ Only this time we 'll dance according to the music . ’ |
16 | They threatened me once more , only this time they sounded much more serious . |
17 | In common with fig 4 this relies on fast alternate picked double stops , only this time they are at a faster tempo , phrased in sixteenths and have a moving line added as a third ( lower ) part . |
18 | Only this time they 're armed not just with a new album but new producers , new horizons , a new attitude and apparently a new code of conduct in interviews . |
19 | ‘ Sphereality ’ was recorded live in concert and finds Crawlspace hanging on to the shreds of their psychedelic shape-shifting strum ( last featured on the 45 they made with Mooseheart Faith ) , only this time they are even more adventurous and what unravels goes far beyond any trip/trance acid groove . |
20 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
21 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
22 | Only this time it 's curtains . |
23 | Where the Early Church had a vision of community and mission as its sustaining theology , a hierarchical Church has an equally well-organized vision , only this time it is a vision of separation . |
24 | Only this time it said , with the old rasp , ‘ I 'll have four sugars . ’ |
25 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he said again , only this time it was tinged with wariness . |
26 | Only this time it covered half his back . ’ |
27 | Yet another multipart game , only this time it manages to be just a little more feeble than the others . |
28 | The man with the concertina , whom Ruth had noticed on the day they sailed from Liverpool , struck up a tune ; only this time it was not a dance , but a hymn of thanksgiving and praise , in which everyone joined . |
29 | Only this time it was n't for him , but for Billie . |
30 | ‘ It 's the sort of silly idea I get all the time , ’ observed Lydia , ‘ only this time it was you who got it . ’ |