Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] only [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family think I should only eat at meal times , and only in small quantities , but I need more than that — my stomach rumbles all the time between meals . |
| 2 | Two of the ruffians seized me , pushing me against the fence , and I could only gabble in horror as their leader drew a long , thin stiletto and pulled back my shirt to expose my throat . |
| 3 | I can only think of Strach , but his lack of experience … ? |
| 4 | or kind of oven in nine , I can only think of Oakhouse as a kind of oven but erm I do n't know whether that 's it or not . |
| 5 | I can only laugh at Rachel now . |
| 6 | The decline of British Rail and Darlington FC , I can only observe with sadness , but the rape of Skinnergate and Northgate by traffic angers me . |
| 7 | The letter with his settlement cheque says : ‘ Once again I can only apologise on behalf of my clients for events that occurred . ’ |
| 8 | We trotted calmly into it , hopped over it — and I can only rely on Karen and John 's description of what happened . |
| 9 | I can only speak for London Branch , socialites we may be but professional fund-raisers ? |
| 10 | And some of it I can only get in Stowmarket anyway because it 's heavy . |
| 11 | I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working . |
| 12 | But I can only play by ear these days . |
| 13 | One was called Jad Machness and the other 's name I can only remember as Romano . |
| 14 | There was one hope which Rosen kept to himself and which would only come to light when Kennedy responded . |
| 15 | It is much more difficult to show that it is a spiritual dead-end which will only end in disappointment , superficiality and naivety . |
| 16 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 17 | It is a simple and relatively cheap procedure for remedying mistakes or obvious injustices , which complements the work of the Employment Appeal Tribunal which can only deal with questions of law ( McMullen , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | To undertake this kind of management requires considerable knowledge and close personal relations between central and field workers , qualities only bred of confidence and maturity of judgement which can only come with time . |
| 19 | Stupid things , she thought , she 'll only get into trouble , snogging at break , honestly . |
| 20 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 21 | There was such comfort , such happiness with him that she could only sigh with pleasure . |
| 22 | She could only think of Adam and pray he would be all right . |
| 23 | She could only watch in horror from the street as a local man and soldiers battled bravely to save four-year-old Stacey and two-year-old Ciara from the blaze . |
| 24 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 25 | She could only look on Roirbak as some kind of doctor who would be dealing with her intimately shortly . |
| 26 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 27 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 28 | She reckoned that she could only take on board a limited number of surprises in any given period , and her quota for the year had just been reached . |
| 29 | He looked anything but gratified , and she could only marvel at Araminta 's inability to see how unwelcome was the good fortune that had come to him . |
| 30 | We could n't get a straight reply — she 'd only answer in sign language . |