Example sentences of "only [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made an Open pass at the young man only to meet with a rebuff . |
| 2 | The females can literally smell success , and will only mate with a victorious male . |
| 3 | Bobby pounded on the door with his fists , but Enoch only responded with a Jewish incantation . |
| 4 | Thus individuals are only presented with a limited choice of tenure and , according to the Nationwide Building Society |
| 5 | In order that the system can meet the required standard of availability , and to simplify control of the archive , lexicographers are only presented with a sub-set of dictionary entries at any one time . |
| 6 | The Israeli delegation rejected such an interpretation and insisted that it would only negotiate with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation . |
| 7 | Drake is only waterfowl with a drooping black crest , and is readily recognised , even at some distance , by strongly contrasted black upperparts and white flanks . |
| 8 | If a change decreases the path length it is always accepted , whilst changes which increase the path length are only accepted with a probability depending in the current annealing temperature and the magnitude of the change . |
| 9 | ‘ I could only speak with a muffle . ’ |
| 10 | They say I have only flirted with a temporary vice and its vice-keeper and , having survived them both , I am still me and I am no junkie . |
| 11 | According to Odent , fathers not only groan with a miscellany of aches and pains before , during and after the birth of a child , but also put on weight beforehand , then top it off with post-natal depression . |
| 12 | As a result , a political response to economic crisis does not arise automatically , but may only emerge with a considerable lag , and its content will be highly variable from polity to polity . |
| 13 | This policy booklet is only produced with a comprehensive wording , reduction in cover is driven by the wording in the ‘ Your insurance cover ’ section of the schedule . |
| 14 | This fountain , perhaps of ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ , is only produced with a vast effort : the process of creation is very difficult . |
| 15 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 16 | Though what will happen in the next century up to 2025 , as table 5.4 suggests , we can only calculate with a large margin of error . |
| 17 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 18 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 19 | Her hair , which is down to her bum , and a colour of gold one only gets with a little help from Miss Clairol , was an absolute mess from the wind . |
| 20 | Some efforts at literacy work have been made by church groups and by the government , but they only deal with a tiny fraction of the problem . |
| 21 | We have only dealt with a parametrised objective function so far in the section . |
| 22 | On the morning of my visit the courts were only dealing with a limited number of very minor matters , mostly drink related . |
| 23 | Rosemary Roche , 35 , of Gillingham , Kent , endured five years of pain and for a while could only walk with a stick , said Deputy High Court Judge Morrison . |
| 24 | It is , however , possible to respect the limitations without totally abandoning the idea of a holiday altogether , or deciding that you can only go with a friend ( which could be disastrous ) . |
| 25 | Nor was it that reforms already undertaken by Russia 's post-communist government , if only supported with a pile of hard currency , will deliver a lasting rise in living standards — because Russia has not yet done anything like enough . |
| 26 | Courts will only interfere with a spending decision of a public authority in the most unusual circumstances . |
| 27 | At a photo-session violinist Nigel Kennedy would initially only pose with a one-stringed acoustic guitar . |
| 28 | Bright attractions such as the damselfly are only encouraged with a pond or running stream . |
| 29 | The second ultrastructural pattern of H pylori , which is only associated with a damaged epithelium , seems related to the absence of a sufficient exogenous source of energy when a longstanding bacterial infection has depleted the local resources . |
| 30 | So you 're only left with a thousand so |