Example sentences of "time and [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | With temperatures reaching 80$degree ; F , several teams dropped men through heat exhaustion , but the Germans ( 263 Parachute Battalion ) managed a very quick time and dropped only three shots on the range . |
| 2 | But is is surprising how often High Court judges , pressed for time and hearing only the plaintiff 's side , overlook the principle and grant an " interim injunction " without inquiring whether the defendant intends to defend . |
| 3 | Angus reckoned that fast business expansion was absorbing all her time and energy , which was why he had decided to take things one step at a time and discuss only business over luncheon ; a business chat would avoid putting either of them in a rejecting position . |
| 4 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 5 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 6 | IN THE final of the British Open in April , Sharon Mills took Diane Bell , Britain 's world middleweight champion , to full time and lost only on a decision . |
| 7 | Her tradition of looking at landscape was deeply Wordsworthian , whatever intimations she may have had that Wordsworth 's language was for his time and place only . |