Example sentences of "one only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard sometimes to describe people one only meets casually , one 's observations , thoughts even , especially when interrupted by people serving drinks , or other guests barging in . |
| 2 | Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability . |
| 3 | ( Certainly one only gets something synonymous , at best , and no analysis , by rendering " If P then Q " as " On the assumption that P is true , so is Q " or " In a possible world where I " is true , so is Q " . ) |
| 4 | Her hair , which is down to her bum , and a colour of gold one only gets with a little help from Miss Clairol , was an absolute mess from the wind . |
| 5 | If one only takes educational institutions such as universities and colleges , let alone the world outside , the emancipatory impulse of the sixties and early seventies has been turned inside out . |
| 6 | The same proportions were apparent in Primary PGCE courses , 12 out of 15 with 30+ hours , and all 15 with compulsory courses ( though one only had between 10 and 20 hours ) . |
| 7 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 8 | Er the St Peter 's Road one only had two bedrooms did n't it ? |
| 9 | I 'm sure the oth the St Peter 's Road one only had two bedrooms . |
| 10 | Yeah , you 've got three doors which is more storage space than the other one , cos the other one only had a cupboard down had no drawers , what 's the matter ? |
| 11 | One only come in the restaurant once but I 'm sure he 's the boss . |
| 12 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 13 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 14 | Indeed this is a fresh act of God 's grace , which many a one only receives after much labour . |
| 15 | One only hopes that these new waters they are navigating lead to a safe haven . ’ |
| 16 | One only hopes that Watt was influenced by the excited voices around him at ringside rather than the babble in his headset . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , and their cats will be looked after too — one only hopes Daisy wo n't put in more food for them than for the humans . ’ |
| 18 | Thoughts of that previous one only crept their way back with the forbidden thought of a child . |
| 19 | There are those who believe passionately that one only appreciates what one has paid for oneself , while there are others who believe , like your higher education correspondent Ngaio Crequer , that the public funding of higher education has served a whole generation well and should be allowed to continue to do so in future . |
| 20 | One only appreciates these marvellous people when need arises , but they go out in all weathers , all year round to help others . |
| 21 | These new works are without exception undistinguished — neither major nor , in most cases , characteristic — and one only wishes the present Court was more robustly advised in such matters . |
| 22 | The critics were quick to recognise the anguish in the writing , but dismissed it as ‘ hopeless pessimism ’ or ‘ a shameful nightmare which one only wishes to forget as quickly and as completely as possible ’ . |
| 23 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 24 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
| 25 | One only has to compare Scotland with England to see where the real problem lay . |
| 26 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 27 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 28 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 29 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 30 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |