Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] only [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the other two subjects I 'm really only dealing because the people responsible are , are not here in the flesh this afternoon but Alyd the provincial advocate and I I think of Bill that 's also gone too , er yes he he has , he has had to leave this afternoon . |
| 2 | So when the wind blows and the rain descends , as it has this week , you are not only upskirted and damp , but you feel guilty too . |
| 3 | So she was not only watching but being watched when she thought she was by herself , when she was taking her clothes off and putting them on and so on . |
| 4 | Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust . |
| 5 | That it should be worked out fairly is as important for the police as for the protesters since the police in their non-public order role , for example in the normal course of investigating and detecting crime , require the cooperation and help of people similar to those whose freedoms to protest they are not only to control but to control fairly . |
| 6 | It is not only labour that the economic power of Bangkok is sucking out of the north-east . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't only queers that get AIDS you know . |
| 8 | Indeed , where studies have provided this information , it is typically only to note that the majority of the sample were white ( for example , Wilson , 1987 ; Graham , 1987b ) . |
| 9 | for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules . |
| 10 | Charlie was older , of course , but it was n't only age that had changed him . |
| 11 | It was not only fear that drove her forward . |
| 12 | He was not only healed but wholly overcome with joy as well . |
| 13 | When he heard that a role in Papillon would be especially created for him , he was not only flattered but asked for ( and got ) a salary of $1.25 million . |