Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [pron] [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally roused myself and walked , unsteadily at first , to the green door and then through the other garden and the house , now silent — for our party had moved away and there was only a lady in an obviously twentieth century flowered smock at a little table in the hall — I felt the world was drained of colour and that I could not face anyone who was not Orlando . |
| 2 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 3 | By 1971 only one-third of the men worked manually and there was only one agricultural worker ( in a survey of 150 households ) , while a large proportion of married and single women had jobs . |
| 4 | I remember an officer diving into a culvert during a raid — he thought he had been hit again but it was only a lump of mud on his seat ! |
| 5 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |
| 6 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 7 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 8 | Seriously , though , shortcuts rarely work properly and it 's only half an hour 's work to get the job done . |
| 9 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |