Example sentences of "that [pron] only [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly felt an immense relief that I only had one more charter to complete for Cutwater , and that I would then be free of these men . |
| 2 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 3 | The custodian told him he had seen ‘ Lady Greensleeves ’ , and warned him that she only visited those in danger . |
| 4 | One important element in this is to make certain that you understand the tariff for calls and that you only make essential calls during peak rate periods . |
| 5 | In your application , you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants . |
| 6 | If anyone claims to be from the Gas Board , Electricity Board , council , or any such body , keep the chain on the door and tell them that you only admit such people by appointment . |
| 7 | I 'm actually going to recommend that you regard these things as codes , and that you only put twelve of these actually into your active binder and put the other fourteen in a storage binder as spares . |
| 8 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 9 | There are many wild flowers that can be legally picked , but always ensure that you only choose large and flourishing plants , and never , ever , remove the plant completely by its roots . |
| 10 | Imagine that you only have five years left to live . |
| 11 | If your life is so rushed that you only have five to ten minutes for lunch , and your body knows that you have to consume at least 300–400 calories in order to make it through until the evening , it is going to look for a very convenient solution , and that means , high calorie , low volume food that is readily available , such as a chunky cheese sandwich , or worse still , a chocolate bar . |
| 12 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 13 | Now imagine that you only have one year to live . |
| 14 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 15 | If you have sex with men for other reasons , it is important that the man wears a condom ( for vaginal and anal intercourse ) or that you only have non-penetrative sex . |
| 16 | Deftly turning the conversation , she said , ‘ Betty tells me the village people are very intrigued by the two veterinary practices here , and Joanna would n't be too pleased if she knew that they are firmly under the impression that you only do small animals and Robert and Ian are large-animal vets . ’ |
| 17 | It is often stated that we only use 10 per cent of our brain . |
| 18 | This last proviso actually tells us that we only need two symbols , T and S , to describe points . |
| 19 | ( 6.12 ) unc it turns out that we only need one law to deal with channel declarations : an elimination rule analogous to ( 6.3 ) . |
| 20 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 21 | By spinning clothes so that they only contained 35 per cent moisture level instead of 80 per cent would save up to two thirds of the energy used in a tumble dryer . |
| 22 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 23 | Consequently , many people find the unsmiling face of a horse rather expressionless which encourages them to think that horses are virtually emotionless — that they only have two emotions : ears forward , and the horse is happy ; ears back , and he is bad tempered . |
| 24 | No doubt people reckoned that they only needed one pair of sheets , but they were wrong . |
| 25 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 26 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 28 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 29 | THE MOST remarkable thing about Graham Watkins 's Macbeth is that it only has two women . |
| 30 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |