Example sentences of "[coord] you only [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And you only seemed artificial in so far as you disregarded the customary devices of false simplicity . ’
2 First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) .
3 I said , ‘ Of course you had grandfather and you only kissed an' they were there . ’
4 so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it
5 It was , after all , my film début , and you only get one chance at that .
6 Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance .
7 All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year .
8 Not more than a thousand and you only reach a limited number of people .
9 ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’
10 right , now what you 've got to judge at the end of the day , now lets say for instance that you 've put in six lines six lines , right and you only wanted to use two of them all you 've got a number for is the rental charge is n't it ?
11 and you only need a normal phone
12 And you only mentioned that briefly , once , at management team meeting and it was included in all the discussions , you know Ray was the first one , you know .
13 And you only broke in to show how smart you are , not because you 're so brave . ’
14 However , ‘ nothing ventured — nothing gained ’ , and you only improve at something by doing it .
15 To win affection , she discovered , you had to project the sort of image the other person wanted , and you only did that if the image appealed to you and if the other person was worth the effort .
16 Now , clearly if you were paid say six hundred pounds for that and you only did twelve hundred miles , you 're getting fifty P a mile anyway !
17 You were supposed to do six and you only did four !
18 As a general rule if the sick person requires a remedy and you only have it available in one potency then that is the correct potency no matter what it is !
19 In Russia , whatever big Boris Yeltsin may be — and you only have to look at him to know more about that than you want to — he is no Gorbachev .
20 And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat .
21 And you only have to telephone if you need me . ’
22 Someone comes up to you and you only have to say you 're not interested in drugs ; sooner or later they 'll leave you alone because they 're too busy trying to find a £5 deal to bang up with in the evening .
23 ‘ All we can do is put the football right and you only do that on the pitch .
24 Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year .
25 Applying ink to the page filters out certain colours , and you only see those reflected .
26 And you only start paying after you , after the third one .
27 The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track .
28 But you only saw me the other night !
29 So you would know the output rate , or you think you 'd know the output rates but you only know those output rates if somebody bothered to collect them !
30 But you only get a certain impression watching television — you do n't feel the pressure or the intensity .
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