Example sentences of "[Wh pn] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Bjorn Engholm , head of the opposition Social Democrats , who only just managed to retain an overall majority in his Schleswig-Holstein constituency after an eight per cent drop in electoral fortunes , called for a ‘ national pact of common sense ’ with the ruling Christian Democrats . |
| 2 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 3 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |
| 4 | However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) . |
| 5 | Families are still per-ceived as consisting of one breadwinner who only exceptionally is a woman , and one dependent spouse whose primary responsibilities lie in the home . |
| 6 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 7 | Erm , who only later realised what he had opened up to the whole of mankind . |
| 8 | That will give little cheer to Electroid who only today saw one of their customers , Aylesbury Automations , shed fourteen jobs … |
| 9 | After the demonstration , television film crew members , who only yesterday morning were reported to be ‘ under surveillance , ’ were lecturing to their own crowds of supporters . |
| 10 | In Spain , which shared a monarch with Naples from 1735 onward , opera was almost entirely in the hands of Neapolitans and Parmesans who only occasionally set Spanish texts . |
| 11 | Andrew MacKinlay , the Labour MP who has campaigned on the matter , has highlighted the case of one widow , now aged 98 , who only recently steeled herself to admit to her family that her husband had been executed for cowardice . |
| 12 | But he 's another one who only ever turns up when you 're half-dressed . |
| 13 | Or would you be one of those people who only ever saw the worst of everything , because they are around are n't they ? |