Example sentences of "she [vb mod] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her role may be restricted to advising the carers on how to treat the patient , and she may only visit the family once . |
| 2 | If times are hard then she may only lay once a fortnight . |
| 3 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |
| 4 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 5 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 6 | She 'll only spend it on more booze and meths but I do n't care . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid , if I go , she 'll only get upset again . |
| 8 | Stupid things , she thought , she 'll only get into trouble , snogging at break , honestly . |
| 9 | " Jesus , Mary and Joseph , pity her simplicity , she 'll only turn them jewels green — tell her I said so , tell her that 's what I said — and say Mr Twomey and myself have a fancy for the Aga Khan 's in the 3 o'clock . " |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't let her know what you 've found out , or she 'll only clam up . |
| 11 | ‘ She says she 'll only be a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | If Gran wakes , she 'll only want a glass of water . ’ |
| 13 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 14 | Oh good lord yes , she 's doing well , in fact eh , some time in November this year she 'll only be two years younger than me . |
| 15 | She said thought , she 'll only only let it out about six or eight times through the year ! |
| 16 | If you go to a thousand she 'll only have to come and do it now cos well I 've won ai n't I ? |
| 17 | she 'll only get a taxi , if er , she thinks it not viable , but er , it , it to me , it just seems not buggering about , but |
| 18 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 19 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 20 | She had given signs enough , perhaps too many , and she could only wait . |
| 21 | As the hand-maid of the Lord , most of the time she could only be there , watching helplessly . |
| 22 | She could only hope he was grateful , and truly so , for all she was forced to suffer on his behalf . |
| 23 | She could only do that if he kept her secrets and obeyed her instructions to the letter . |
| 24 | If she could only persuade Isabel to come downstairs , other than for meals , to talk to her , to listen to the radio , not to be afraid of meeting the butcher or the postman or whatever visitor might call . |
| 25 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 26 | She could only look on Roirbak as some kind of doctor who would be dealing with her intimately shortly . |
| 27 | If she could only cry it would help , but that seemed impossible too . |
| 28 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 29 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 30 | Rosemary apparently has to cope with her husband 's anxiety that she could only be cured by becoming more ‘ assertive ’ . |