Example sentences of "only [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 2 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 3 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 4 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 5 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 6 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 7 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 8 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 9 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 10 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 11 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 12 | . He 's only given you one of those . |
| 13 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 14 | The genie comes out and goes you , I can only grant you one wish , think carefully . |
| 15 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 16 | But wanting only frustrated him more . |
| 17 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 18 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 19 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 20 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 21 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 22 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 23 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 25 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 26 | The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible . |
| 27 | The project team can not guarantee that the product will be so exploited , it can only make it possible . |
| 28 | I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year . |
| 29 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 30 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |