Example sentences of "[pron] that only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 2 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 3 | When I reminded them that only an hour ago they were saying they did n't fancy any more , they looked genuinely irritated . |
| 4 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 5 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 6 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 7 | It is the unheard-of , something that only the author knows : the vital knowledge that gives the author control over both the characters and the readers of the book . |
| 8 | It 's hard to admit sometimes I just ca n't help Linda if she 's dealing with something that only she can deal with . |
| 9 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 10 | If , as Phoenix suggests ( 1988a , p. 154 ) , ‘ race ’ is seen as something that only influences Black women , this silence about ‘ race ’ is likely to signal an absence of Black people in the populations of most poverty studies . |
| 11 | Apple had to find something that only their computer could do . |
| 12 | The interests of the child reside in obtaining the best possible education , something that only regular attendance at school can bestow . |
| 13 | So that 's something that only you can do really , that you , gather up the information , it 's like , it 's like having all your information in say a room this size . |
| 14 | But tonight … ’ he spoke abstractedly , his hands occupied with their seductive task ‘ … tonight is going to be something that only two can share . ’ |
| 15 | But you see what Freud , what Freud fastens on there and is something that only a psychoanalyst could do , is , is that there 's a discrepancy in the story . |
| 16 | Erm yeah , but it was there was something that only certain employees that time the start of the pension like myself , erm I have to pay five pound a week after tax for my pension . |
| 17 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 18 | ‘ You have an indefinable spirit , something that only the best Spanish poets , flamenco dancers and artists are gifted with . ’ |
| 19 | Tampons are something that only women use , but it 's something that must become part of our voc vocabulary if we 're to save lives . |
| 20 | It 's an excellent idea , and sadly one that only custom builders — and one must include Jackson here , as Jackson include the feature on their ‘ custom ’ guitars — seem to have the time to implement properly . |
| 21 | There 's an example in my book , with one that only lasted six weeks , for example , which is astonishing by modern standards . |
| 22 | Whenever he mentioned his novel she told him that only her work was ‘ true art ’ . |
| 23 | Her brothers all smoked yet when Mickey had seen his sister smoking he had snatched the cigarette from her hand , grinding it out with his heel , shouting at her that only dags smoked . |
| 24 | Some instinct told her that only the truth could save them now ; that the time for evasions was over . |
| 25 | It was a burning , raking scrutiny , designed to make her aware of his pulsing desire to slake his sexual hunger with her that only needed her nod to unleash itself . |
| 26 | But at 17 stone , the health authority 's told her that only a 20-inch chair will do . |
| 27 | The Tories were heading for disaster if they continued to delude themselves that only a little fine tuning of presentation was required to secure a fourth consecutive general election victory . |
| 28 | They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them . |