Example sentences of "and [vb past] only [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not often given words to speak , and had only to sit in the shade of his massive wings and stare into the middle distance and drift in his imagination to the four corners of the sky . |
| 2 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 3 | Within a mere fifteen minutes , the new rental car with 1500 miles on the clock — and had only had in my possession for under an hour — was a burnt out shell . |
| 4 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 5 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 6 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |