Example sentences of "[pers pn] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , shortly after Mehmed II came to the throne , he offered Molla Gurani a vezirlik , the latter is reported to have refused , saying : " Those servants and slaves who are in thy palace serve thee only that they may , in the end , obtain the office of vezir . |
| 2 | That is certainly not the case , because we include them only after they have been made to fit in with our rules of the game . |
| 3 | Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict . |
| 4 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 5 | We do not use them only because those we have employed hitherto have been sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 6 | Military and political commanders would normally decide to use them only when a war in Europe was in full swing . |
| 7 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 8 | The doctor is often the gate to all the other members of the health care team , although he or she may involve them only when problems have arisen . |
| 9 | The JNA itself claimed that Slovenes had kidnapped two of its soldiers on May 23 , releasing them only when tanks and armoured vehicles arrived at the defence force headquarters near Maribor . |
| 10 | The subjects accept that someone has authority over them only if their willingness to do his bidding is not conditional on their agreement on the merits of performing the actions required by the authority . |
| 11 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 12 | The government has authority over them only if they have reason to contribute to a scheme which benefits others . |
| 13 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |
| 14 | Advocate them only if you are sure that the parents can complete them without loss of temper and possible physical risk to the child . |
| 15 | The universities may treat them as advisory and act upon them only if they so wish . |
| 16 | Generally , senators assume that the President has the right to make the nominations and they will block them only if they feel that the nominees are particularly weak and the President needs teaching a lesson . |
| 17 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 18 | They were standing now , in the as bomb-hit kitchen , Rab and Doctor ; and Doctor — she was taller than him , what with her feather and hat , by a good head — said , ‘ Those pills that I 've given you , take them only as prescribed . |
| 19 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 20 | Suddenly , but predictably , the main actor enters the stage and speaks in a piercing voice , intelligible to me only because it is unmistakably one of alarm . |
| 21 | Mum takes me only because I mentioned to her that my periods have stopped . |
| 22 | Or perhaps — such a suggestion rises in me only because I have lain next to the contagious soul of Gustave himself — did he gather it elsewhere ? |
| 23 | He 's with me only because the Reichsführer ordered it . ’ |
| 24 | Honestly , I only but it for the sports features |
| 25 | No I only if your half dead . . |
| 26 | produce ( read ) the items across the columns , first one by one if necessary , and have the language helper repeat after you only if you did n't say them right |
| 27 | mimic each word down list A , and then down list B. Instruct the LH to repeat the word again after you only if you did n't pronounce it correctly |
| 28 | He 's sold me to you only because he thinks I 'm going to die soon . |
| 29 | That must be disturbing him greatly ; for , after all , though the Rabbi was not her blood relation and she had known him only since her marriage , even for her it was an intolerable wrench . |
| 30 | In all such cases the rule would seem to apply that the infant 's acts are ‘ voidable ’ ; they become binding on him only if , after attaining full age , he fails within a reasonable time to repudiate them . |