Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] only [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah but if I I 'll only get one test paper from all three of you wo n't I ? |
| 2 | I 'll only get one coffee , it 's alright . |
| 3 | I could only confess that loss in sounds |
| 4 | They said I could only stay one week , but I stayed there for two , and they did n't know . |
| 5 | We had to stand in the pissing down rain , with the cockney scum , and whats more I could only see one goal , and not even the goal that we scored in . |
| 6 | I thought to myself , if I could only get that back to 2020 , how much would it be worth ! |
| 7 | On my word your Notion is not amiss ( and by the way I 'll not forget it ) I will only give this Sheet to the Bookseller , and wait on you if you 'll tell me where . ’ |
| 8 | I will only sing one song . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I will only have one runner , ’ said Richards . |
| 10 | I can only presume that Lucker has failed in the macho stakes . |
| 11 | And I I can only do this work I 'm sorry . |
| 12 | I ask , because after reading 22 pages of closely argued articles in the Fabian Review about Labour 's defeat , I can only find one reference to the unions , and that not from any of the 18 invited contributors . |
| 13 | I can only recall one occasion when he expressed a quiet boast ; he took delight in telling me that he did not have one paper qualification to his name . |
| 14 | It is not for everyone ; I can only recommend this book to those who are serious about the history of turning lathes and ornamental turning . |
| 15 | Although made almost entirely of wood and having to land at what was then the extremely high speed of 100mph , I can only remember one incident of a Mosquito crashing and burning on the airfield . |
| 16 | Now I can only remember one thing about it : a passage which refers to the death by starvation of a girl in Paris because she only had a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day . |
| 17 | Which could only mean one thing . |
| 18 | If that policy were applied throughout Britain , as was also said by the right hon. Gentleman , it would cost £1.2 billion — an additional cost to the taxpayer which could only mean less investment in roads . |
| 19 | From the moorland rimwards of the wood they watched the battle between the trees and Time , which could only have one ending . |
| 20 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |
| 21 | New road capacity " which would only encourage extra commuting " will be discouraged . |
| 22 | Choose a punchcard which , according to your manual , is suitable for knitweave and which will only give medium length floats . |
| 23 | The problem with Destiny is that even at $350 — which will only buy kernel-level stuff — it is still much more expensive than MS-DOS/Windows , and Microsoft Corp is sure to pitch NT at some attractive price point well below USL 's . |
| 24 | Yet it is clear that there are enormous possibilities for offering a rich mixture of sounds and players which can only enhance public worship . |
| 25 | This illustrates Elster 's ( 1979 ) point that natural selection is a hill-climbing process which can only reach local optima , whereas rational behaviour can reach a global optimum . |
| 26 | Bureaucracy is a form of social organization which can only serve bourgeois domination . |
| 27 | An XT-class machine has an 8088 processor which can only address one megabyte of RAM at most . |
| 28 | However , you may only have one General , so you will not be able to use certain characters together . |
| 29 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SPR relates . |
| 30 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SPR relates . |