Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on I would only play on special invitation . |
| 2 | I ordered some more named varieties and soon decided that from then on I would only grow these fascinating plants . |
| 3 | And if you said , well I can only I can only achieve seventy-five percent of what was in my plan one week , then you say well , what was I doing wrong ? |
| 4 | So I can only build on the west side . |
| 5 | You can make pleas for extra schemes but if you do so I could only suggest that you also accompany it with one that you would rather er is not done , so there are actually replacements rather than additions . |
| 6 | and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and |
| 7 | I had n't known she did , but apparently she could only be persuaded when she was in her cups , which was a rare occurrence . |
| 8 | Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market . |
| 9 | Obviously you will only be asked to come for an interview if you have made an initial approach for a job . |
| 10 | You know you 'll only you will only get that much for wedding fairs and we are getting that . |
| 11 | You can only you can only s you can only see light A if you A if there 's something if if you 've got an organ to see it with and B if it 's shining on something . |
| 12 | She 's only got one to appraise so she can only have one |
| 13 | So you may only want to buy what you think you 're likely to need . |
| 14 | So you 'll only get the positive . |
| 15 | So you 'll only be letting yourself down . |
| 16 | So you 'd only look in that projection what will happen , right . |
| 17 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 18 | So you can only see it on paper . |
| 19 | so you can only push it across to three and get near the yellow , near the black . |
| 20 | So you can only say they may make a payment . |
| 21 | So you can only put your headlights on , get little lights at the back . |
| 22 | Perhaps we can only ever see this when we have been ‘ broken ’ by God , perhaps through failures or disasters that he has allowed us to experience . |
| 23 | Why this was so we can only guess . |
| 24 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 25 | Well , it did go erm but Tony Mould who in actual fact is the promoter at erm Wolverhampton with Chris van Stratten , has gone into Longeaton. erm So we can only hope that he can do the job and keep them there . |
| 26 | So one can only surmise that this rather authoritarian sign is aimed at people whose knuckles scrape the tarmac . |
| 27 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 28 | I 've been a professional writer for 30 years now and I 've been slaughtered before so one can only bow ! ( laughs ) . |
| 29 | Henceforth there would only be ‘ cricketers ’ . |
| 30 | and so there will only be one franchise , this will build up gradually . |