Example sentences of "only [noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 2 | Advances in computer technology are now so fast only computers themselves can keep pace with the data . |
| 3 | I have tried to build up a repertoire that incorporates only pieces I can live with throughout an entire lifetime . |
| 4 | Interestingly , it was not only daughters who could feel such a binding duty . |
| 5 | The political anger of ‘ On Civil Disobedience ’ and ‘ Walden ’ has burned itself out ; only one remark still rings with it , when Thoreau considers how the cherry disperses itself by having its stones swallowed : ‘ It is only princes who can afford to have their cherry puddings stoned , and so make their lives more completely luxurious and useless . ’ |