Example sentences of "you only [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In your application , you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants . |
| 2 | Er , I must declare an , an interest because I am a , a court lawyer , but I think that a lot of people say no because of the media pres , presentation , you only hear bad stories , they do n't hear the good , good stories about the attempts to make the courts more efficient and I think that on the whole and with the circumstances that the courts have to deal with they do a very good job . |
| 3 | Even if you only wrote one page . ’ |
| 4 | Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week . |
| 5 | You only got one shot — this was live television — and I stood in the wings , rigid with fear , listening to my heart booming . |
| 6 | You only got one shot left . |
| 7 | France and Spain , okay , if you only got one of those countries right we could n't give you the point , it has to be both , question eighteen , in which book would you find the character Long John Silver ? |
| 8 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 9 | you only got two carpets to sort out and a bit of lino rather than having a different one with this one and a different one for that one and then a different one for |
| 10 | Yeah , three hundred , now today you only got hundred and thirty because they the manual work . |
| 11 | Well yo you only got that at Christmas so you have n't played with it much . |
| 12 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 13 | so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it |
| 14 | They 're only one pound , ninety for forty eight packets , that the equivalent of ten , you only get fifteen packets for that price , or would you like me to get you a box of er Extra Strong Mints ? |
| 15 | You only get nine thousand four hundred . |
| 16 | Oh , you only get two . |
| 17 | That 's if you look at it , like , you only get two chances at speeding now . |
| 18 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 19 | It was , after all , my film début , and you only get one chance at that . |
| 20 | You only get one chance at it . |
| 21 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 22 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 23 | You only get one life , do n't you ? |
| 24 | Because you only get one chance , Thing ! |
| 25 | You only get one chance and then you die and they do n't let you go round again after you 've got the hang of it ! |
| 26 | I mean , if your policy renewal date was December , you 're off in November , you only get one payment at the old rate , and the next one 's at the newer rate . |
| 27 | Sometimes you only get one invitation to this particular dance , Charity . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes you only get one invitation to this particular dance , Charity . |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes you only get one invitation to this particular dance , Charity . |
| 30 | I bet you only get one sticker this time . |