Example sentences of "only [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He regarded the Cabinet ’ , wrote Anthony Seldon , ‘ as extremely important , even sacrosanct , and would only rarely ride roughshod over it to get his way . ’ |
| 2 | It remains a superb pièce d'occasion , and is only rarely revived today . |
| 3 | Intermittent series based on 50 year averages have also been calculated for another 50 items , and a large number of individual valuations for items which occur only rarely have also been collected . |
| 4 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 5 | We can only only start off from here , |
| 6 | He did not even pretend to a crushing burden of work , only enough to complain comfortably about . |
| 7 | The equilibrium of this system lived after it ; its remnants were only finally blown away in 19l4 although it had begun to disintegrate long before . |
| 8 | That leaves us only tonight to get through . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment . |
| 10 | Yeah but I du n no how much I got in there cos I only just put so much in there so I 'll check it on Monday . |
| 11 | ’ Oh , it 's only just blown up . |
| 12 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 13 | Sorry , I only just woke up . |
| 14 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 15 | Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately . |
| 16 | Was the reality of the situation only just getting through to him ? |
| 17 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
| 18 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 19 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 20 | I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’ |
| 21 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 22 | The great Soviet Empire was only just holding together ; if a group of Ukrainian nationalists were to raise St Vladimir 's Cross as a rallying point , the most important state within the Union would erupt into rebellion against Moscow . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's where you have a body which is only just ticking over , but where the brain survives . |
| 24 | I 've only just realised right , they 're gon na |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's ridiculous — I 've only just realised how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’ |
| 27 | I was just thinking that the dinner 's probably only just come on , I did n't quite know how long , how late we be huh . |
| 28 | Christ , it 's only up , microwave film only just come out ! |
| 29 | Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast . |
| 30 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |