Example sentences of "[pers pn] could only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 3 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 4 | and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and |
| 5 | When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks . |
| 6 | She emphasised that I could only share rooms with someone Tata would have considered ‘ acceptable ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 8 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 9 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 10 | But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee . |
| 11 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 12 | She could only hope Dane would feel the same way . |
| 13 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 14 | Just so long as the two of them were involved professionally , she was at ease with him , but once that link was severed , she could only feel antagonism towards him . |
| 15 | There was so much about her that Louise admired , she could only suspend judgement on the rest . |
| 16 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 17 | If she could only persuade Isabel to come downstairs , other than for meals , to talk to her , to listen to the radio , not to be afraid of meeting the butcher or the postman or whatever visitor might call . |
| 18 | She could only sell St Agatha once , and there was precious little left besides to sell . |
| 19 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 20 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 22 | We could only acquire areas outside our own boundary with the consent of the two other local authorities . |
| 23 | Both Dr Laurent and Dr Blackwell thought that it was a virus infection but we could only isolate bacteria in our small microscopes . |
| 24 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 25 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 26 | We could only use candles it night if we were working , because they were in very short supply . |
| 27 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 28 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 29 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 30 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |