Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] only [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived in Oxfordshire with only the clothes I was standing in . |
| 2 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 3 | So cold was the weather that Sergeant Phillips died of hypothermia on only the second night . |
| 4 | ‘ I went to Washington with only the clothes on my back . ’ |
| 5 | He spoke in English with only the trace of an accent . |
| 6 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |