Example sentences of "only [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There I only cared about the money and all the other teachers were the same . |
| 2 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 3 | Only to talk about the contract and the copy . |
| 4 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 5 | We did not only speak about the service , but also about other aspects of ecumenism concerning our local community . |
| 6 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
| 7 | Now we 're only bothered about the X. |
| 8 | I only know about the room . |
| 9 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 10 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 11 | We may only conjecture about the degree to which these subjective assessments were influenced by prior experience of the school in other contexts , the existence of good or bad relations between the reporter and the staff of the school , and the personal prejudices and preferences of the individual concerned . |
| 12 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 13 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 14 | Your priest only knew about the past . |
| 15 | The implication always was , the feeling , that Michael not only knew about the men in balaclavas , but was a part of them somehow , but Rory and his mother — although never discussing it — believed otherwise . |
| 16 | Yes er I think that er notwithstanding the fact that we only spoke about the er incentive scheme on occasions , we reserved our er judgment as to when we would apply to the management to discuss certain matters . |
| 17 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 18 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 19 | Such an historical perspective must be our long-term goal , even though for the present we can at best only hypothesize about the nature of the development processes at work . |
| 20 | Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore . |
| 21 | But does n't talk , he does only talk about the economic |
| 22 | I can only speculate about the reasons for their success . |
| 23 | But if the literary text says , ‘ The door was open ’ I can not ask the text what it means by saying that the door was open , I can only speculate about the significance of that door — opened by what agency , leading to what discovery , mystery , goal ? |
| 24 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 25 | One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker . |
| 26 | At present we can only speculate about the nature of the origin of the oesophageal motor abnormalities and their role in the ‘ eventual ’ development of reflux disease and oesophagitis . |
| 27 | If the lounge reflects the proprietor 's domestic preferences , one can only speculate about the Georgian town house style hotel whose lounge boasts two public telephones with wall mounted perspex hoods , a cigarette machine and , on one occasion , dead arrangements of pinks and carnations on each coffee table . |
| 28 | They only wrote about the district . |
| 29 | They only care about the money . |
| 30 | Although at the local level we will be pursuing similar objectives , when it comes tot he wider national issues , it will be CPRW that speaks out for those who not only care about the Park , but also see it as a special part of a special country . |