Example sentences of "[pron] only [verb] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , apologetically , ‘ It 's ridiculous , but I only remember our meeting once , after Oxford . |
| 2 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 3 | We only wish our insomnia was due to our street lights being too bright or , at the very least , being in existence rather than concern about our families , friends and neighbours walking through our dark paths and streets . |
| 4 | We only need our heating on for an hour . |
| 5 | We only fulfil our potential as individuals in working with and for others , as well as for ourselves . |
| 6 | ‘ We only waste our time here ’ , was the common complaint of those who were aware of what prestigious western universities had to offer . |
| 7 | Such absurdity is there only to test our faith in the way that Abraham was tested with an ‘ absurd ’ moral demand . |
| 8 | He only have our nostalgia for our personal lost Eden . |