Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [vb mod] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 2 | No further progress was made on Jan. 31 , 1990 , and the North indicated that it would only attend a meeting set for March 7 if the Team Spirit exercises were called off . |
| 3 | After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop . |
| 4 | The angle of the glacier meant that it could only hover , one ski touching the slope . |
| 5 | It was this sort of in-between authority that he could not tolerate as he felt that it would only increase the existing element of confusion . |
| 6 | The Israeli delegation rejected such an interpretation and insisted that it would only negotiate with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation . |
| 7 | It was better to let it rot out on the field then go to the trouble to carry it wet because it would only rot or become mouldy and absolutely useless . |
| 8 | The opposition again spurned an invitation to participate in a coalition government when round table talks resumed on Feb. 6 , and on the following day the leadership of the Bulgarian Agrarian People 's Union ( BAPU — the junior coalition partner in every government since the 1947 imposition of communist rule ) said that it would only join a new government of " national consensus " . |