Example sentences of "only [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 2 | But it only made things worse . |
| 3 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 4 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |
| 5 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 6 | Cos he only got sandwiches . |
| 7 | He only used spanners and gauges , scorning the runes or litanies which all other techs deemed so essential to woo the spirit of a machine . |
| 8 | Cos they only booked seats for the immediate family . |
| 9 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 10 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 11 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 12 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 13 | You only kissed bishops ' rings , even Léonie knew that , Thérèse must have forgotten . |
| 14 | Walker , who only switched sports in August , is named in the 29-strong squad that travels to Spain next month as part of the build-up to the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 15 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 16 | The intruders , thought to be youngsters , only took childrens videos and a wallet , leaving many other vluables behind . |
| 17 | But the first kiosk only took cards , and she did not have one and the next kiosk was broken . |
| 18 | At least she only robbed bins and doorsteps , she did n't shoplift . |
| 19 | Tony Phillips asked the two men to leave 15 times but they only went minutes before police arrived . |
| 20 | So popular was this usage at one time that I recall examining final school-practice for one college when in observing two full days of drama lessons I only saw games , no drama at all . |
| 21 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 22 | When the fell race became a regular part of Burnsall Feast Sports , the runners not only wore clothes but also their hobnailed working boots . |
| 23 | Most of her clothes were either tailored for work or casual ; when she was at home she normally only wore jeans and sweaters , she thought , then gave a little laugh at her behaviour . |
| 24 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 25 | I thought they only liked bananas . ’ |
| 26 | If our tunnel vision sees only disconnected fragments , the fault lies within ourselves and it is in remedying that ignorance to which our main efforts should be individually devoted . |
| 27 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 28 | Not only did women earn less than male officers but they were kept to shoplifting , domestic violence , child cruelty and sexual crime . |
| 29 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 30 | I only did mornings but even the mornings were too much for me . ’ |