Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier , for example , to conclude that someone is being abrupt if you only have what they say and how they say it to go on . |
| 2 | but we 'd have to add another if we only had one penny we 'd have to add another nine to get ten P . |
| 3 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 4 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 5 | However , we see the thesis as overambitious since it only holds for certain groups and issues and for a particular period of British politics — and that period , may have passed at least for the moment . |
| 6 | Perhaps Councillors in Oxford should be grateful that they only had a shark and a pair of legs to get upset about . |
| 7 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | You were supposed to do six and you only did four ! |
| 10 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 11 | " How is it you know so much when you only took the shop over last week ? " |
| 12 | ‘ All we can do is put the football right and you only do that on the pitch . |
| 13 | In addition , your schedule could be upset if you only intended to break your journey for a short time at a particular spot . |
| 14 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | But though our brains are big , they are not the biggest ; whale and elephant are larger and we only top the scale if you take into account overall body size — our brain is largest relative to our bodies . |
| 17 | I think there was only one because they only had one , and I got one white cos they only had one I think , it was the other colours I 'm sure I 'd got two of , I must of done , cos I mean I 've used a lot myself do n't I ? |
| 18 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 19 | Seeds may be collected but be quick as they only float for a short time . |
| 20 | I kept an ace but I only got a pair of eights with it which was no good . |
| 21 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 22 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 23 | Charlotte was drinking sherry , do n't suppose , should n't tell you that but she only had one little drop and I was |
| 24 | You must make sure that you only take upon yourself those things that you know you can manage comfortably . |
| 25 | Again if you re rely on L P G heaters as soon as you 've got an emp er a , a , a cylinder empty , get it out the way back to your supplier to make sure that you only have it serviced on a one to one basis so you get a one for one swap . |
| 26 | Please make sure that you only have one clear circled point on the scale for every person . ’ |
| 27 | She 's seventy and she only stopped hunting last season because she 's got arthritis in her wrist . |
| 28 | Not more than a thousand and you only reach a limited number of people . |
| 29 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 30 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |