Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I goes to Mr look , there 's only one girl that goes there , yeah , with her mum and that 's Nadine , yeah ? |
| 2 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 3 | I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer . |
| 4 | Would he have attacked more children at school if he had destroyed only one tower and stabbed only two dolls ? |
| 5 | The point is that if there were only one planet that had ever borne life , then it would have to be our planet , for the very good reason that ‘ we ’ are here discussing the question ! |
| 6 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 7 | We stopped abseiling , packed away one rope and ploughed down into the unknown , tied loosely on the other line . |
| 8 | Unable to bear the suspense , Jess tucked her skirts under one arm and clambered up to see herself . |
| 9 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 10 | Choosing the former , I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants ' wing early one morning and knocked gently . |
| 11 | Weighing under seven stone and standing just five feet two inches tall , there have been times when she was dwarfed by her fellow competitors . |
| 12 | As you know , I am now in debt to the extent of about 700 gulden and have n't the faintest idea how I am going to support myself , Mamma and your sister on my monthly salary … this is the first time I have got into debt . |