Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [vb mod] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard on the television that there will be another and there are lots of people who are in , in absolute despair , because of what happened to their houses and their properties and their furniture and everything else and I think it is only right and proper and I can only say that West Sussex County Council has by so many people that it has |
| 2 | ‘ On that occasion his food was very restricted and he could only drink 7-Up , ’ Kathleen says . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct . |
| 4 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 5 | Teaching must be alive and it can only be alive in the present moment — it is time-consuming to try to make stale bread palatable , and why bother when fresh bread is available ? |
| 6 | This seems fairly remarkable and it can only be assumed they are being kept awake by ghost stories and surveys about what people do in bed . |
| 7 | Your intellectual resources and personal qualities will be exceptional and we will only appoint those who have the clear potential to succeed . |
| 8 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 9 | They said it was economically stupid and they would only allow us to burn down the death-house after a noble 's funeral . |
| 10 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 11 | The latter point is debatable and it may only be that the practical aspects of creep measurements are simpler . |