Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't go around being cross or you 'll only make enemies for yourself . |
| 2 | i Hero : This child believes that he or she can only obtain love and appreciation through achievement . |
| 3 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 4 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 5 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse . |
| 7 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 8 | But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee . |
| 9 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 10 | These big events must be properly controlled if ever they take place and they must only take place with police permission and proper licenses . |
| 11 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 12 | They will feel the Government is heeding Dr Hendron and the SDLP and it will only heighten tension , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 14 | In any case it costs nothing to hear it on FM radio these days , and it can only do orchestras good . |
| 15 | The application of evolutionary ideas to the study of knowledge has recently been urged by a number of people , but I shall only discuss Campbell 's evolutionary epistemology ( Campbell 1974 ) . |
| 16 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 17 | Getting smaller , but you can only use ones and noughts |
| 18 | Both Dr Laurent and Dr Blackwell thought that it was a virus infection but we could only isolate bacteria in our small microscopes . |
| 19 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 20 | Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor . |
| 21 | Caterpillars have eyes on the sides of their body but they can only tell dark from light . |
| 22 | By then the ‘ monster ’ has gone through many transformations , unable to decide who he is or which of his many disguises represents the true ‘ him ’ ; but he can only find liberty by killing the father who sired him . |
| 23 | You would have put £10,000 towards a good cause — but it would only have cost you £6,000 , because you would have saved the rest in tax . |
| 24 | I do n't know what he 's up to , but it can only mean trouble . ’ |
| 25 | Representation 3 : This also portrays the board as a list , but it can only represent boards which have queens in the bottom i rows for some i , and none in higher rows . |
| 26 | As we have seen , congruence with ‘ verb bias ’ can facilitate role mapping directly , but it can only facilitate name mapping indirectly . |
| 27 | But it will only bite humans as a means of self-defence . |