Example sentences of "only [noun sg] you [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you are ever going to see one of the genuine though attested rarities among the local fauna , a bear , a lynx , or an eagle , the Park is the only place you might do so , though there are thought to be fewer than twenty bears still living in the Pyrenees , and only eight pairs of eagles . |
| 2 | If it has n't , the only thing you can do — apart from continuing your garage-less existence , or renting one from a car-less neighbour — is to convert part of the ground floor of your house to construct a built-in garage , with all the upheaval and loss of living space which that entails . |
| 3 | So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ? |
| 4 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 5 | It 's the only thing you can do with an organisation of this size . |
| 6 | The only thing you can do is scribble ; and what is the result of your scribblings ? |
| 7 | The only thing you can do is funk it ! |
| 8 | The only thing you can do is carry on with your water changes and syphon off the algae at every opportunity . |
| 9 | ‘ So I 'm afraid the only thing you can do is grin and bear it , ’ Leif said , in what was obviously a finale . |
| 10 | Well only thing , the only thing you can do if you got any P forty fives ? |
| 11 | Think the only thing you can do is as I say be honest and say that , you know , you 're very worried about your fingers |
| 12 | The only thing you can do is . |
| 13 | The only thing you can do is to quiet him down , to frighten him off . |
| 14 | Well the only thing you can do is hopefully your next test is n't at the same time make it a |
| 15 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 16 | The only thing you could do to this programme is |
| 17 | The only thing you could do is get the , you know that kind of plastic edging you can get for wall tiles |
| 18 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 19 | Well , the only way you 'll do that is by giving them a copy . |
| 20 | In a way , I 'm interested at the Engineering Prize Federation and C B I have also began to realise that we ca n't survive , and I 'm sorry if you 're retailers , ca n't survive on the service in this country , we got ta survive on a manufacturing industry in this country and the only way you can do that is by having , really a pool of trained people . |
| 21 | And the only way you can do that is b attending your branch meetings . |
| 22 | The only way you can do that is the old fashioned way of taking care of your guests in the best possible manner . ’ |
| 23 | The only way you can do it at any particular point that 's the trouble . |
| 24 | trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things . |
| 25 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 26 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 27 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 28 | It 's the only way you can do it . |
| 29 | And the only way you can do that is when you judge when you know tha your car . |
| 30 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |