Example sentences of "[pron] will only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until all that has died down , I will only say that the only thing I 'm bothered about is the well-being of the club . |
| 2 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 3 | ‘ I will only give my name , rank and number , ’ I said pompously . |
| 4 | ‘ It is no use , ’ I said to him , ‘ I will only give you my name , rank and number . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I will only give you my name , rank and number . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I will only have one runner , ’ said Richards . |
| 7 | Of the most famous of all bird books , John James Audubon 's Birds of America ( 1827–38 ) , I will only say that you will need to sell some fifteen or sixteen of your collection of Shakespeare First Folios in order to buy it . |
| 8 | Since I have described this context in detail elsewhere ( Robarchek 1977a , b ; 1986a ) , I will only sketch it here . |
| 9 | Baldwin , with a glowering Churchill beside him and uncertain followers behind him , took the opportunity to pay a notable tribute to the Viceroy and to end it on a curious note , half petulant , half menacing : ‘ I will only add that if ever the day comes when the party which I lead ceases to attract to itself men of the calibre of Edward Wood , then I have finished with my party . ’ |
| 10 | " Very well , " he said , " but I will only allow it if you take Maria Candida as a chaperone . " |
| 11 | I will only say that proceedings should be brought before the court by way of appeal in contempt matters only in exceptional cases . |
| 12 | I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available . |
| 13 | On my word your Notion is not amiss ( and by the way I 'll not forget it ) I will only give this Sheet to the Bookseller , and wait on you if you 'll tell me where . ’ |
| 14 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |
| 16 | Since you seem to know whereof you speak I will only say that you must know that the burden of restraint by means of the … mechanism … employed will , of necessity , fall upon the man . |
| 17 | If I go I will only take you with me and this bed is already warm . |
| 18 | However , Darwin 's critics said because of sexual reproduction I will only pass half that mutation on to my offspring because even then everybody knew that half of an organism 's inheritance in genetic , in erm sexual reproduction comes from the other parent . |
| 19 | ‘ I will only have eyes for you . ’ |
| 20 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 21 | I will only sing one song . ’ |
| 22 | I will only use my words to describe my circumstance . |
| 23 | I was hoping to get back to council work before Christmas , but I recognise that if I rush , it I will only set me back . |
| 24 | This leads directly on to an issue which will only be noted here , leaving further discussion until the next chapter . |
| 25 | Mr Crook called the decision ‘ a very dangerous judgment which will only generate more secret justice and undermine the public 's respect for the administration of justice . ’ |
| 26 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
| 27 | It is much more difficult to show that it is a spiritual dead-end which will only end in disappointment , superficiality and naivety . |
| 28 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 29 | Others certainly did : Metternich remarked , ‘ in the great Confederation , there is arising a smaller union , a status in statu in the full sense of the term , which will only too soon accustom itself to achieve its own ends by its own machinery … and will only pay attention to the objects and machinery of the Confederation insofar as they are compatible with the former ’ . |
| 30 | Collectively , older people need to exploit the full potential of their influence , which will only increase as their numbers grow , in order both to maintain responsibility for their own lives , and to demand their full social , political and economic rights . |