Example sentences of "only [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 2 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 3 | Unused to being argued with , he shouted and cursed at her , and soon the two of them were arguing fiercely , he having trouble making articulate sentences due to his excessive amount of drink , which only made him yet angrier . |
| 4 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 5 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 6 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 7 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 8 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 9 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 10 | In fact , if anything , she only made it more prominent . |
| 11 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 12 | I only got it today . |
| 13 | I only got it about 6 years ago , but the badge is the smiley or ‘ penis ’ ( smiley penis ! ? ! ) . |
| 14 | Oh cos you only got it yesterday did n't you ? |
| 15 | I only got I only got |
| 16 | You only met him tonight . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Alas I only met them once . |
| 18 | ‘ You only met her yesterday morning and she was dead before dinner . ’ |
| 19 | Ca n't remember her name , I only met her once , but she 's an attractive girl . ’ |
| 20 | But she did not speak the words , only whispered them despairingly inside her head . |
| 21 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 22 | We tried to pull the leg up so that he would n't put so much weight on it , but then he only found it even harder to walk straight . |
| 23 | Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Her letters only mentioned you once or twice — in the early days — just after her mother married your father , and then only by your pen name . |
| 25 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 26 | I only told you so you know he — he — well , he likes her . |
| 27 | We only played them away . |
| 28 | You only kissed him twice ? |
| 29 | Well I only cut them anyway ! |
| 30 | He never said any of this to anybody , only thought it sometimes . |