Example sentences of "we only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only bet when Mr Harvey tells us who to back , and nine times out of ten he 's right , so I 've nearly doubled my savings . |
| 2 | I remember coming into the store one Saturday at five minutes to four , I apologised for being so late and you said to me ‘ That 's alright Sir , we only shoot the last three ’ . |
| 3 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 4 | and took over the mill and rationalised the business during the 50s and from then on we only sold branded products and compound feeds . |
| 5 | We hear a wide range of noises all day and every day but we only listen to those to which we wish to pay attention . |
| 6 | At Rouen the fuel filters were so good that they took all the dye out of the fuel and became clogged , so we only finished second . |
| 7 | But if we only know the bell according to those systems we call logic or science , then we can only talk about bells . |
| 8 | 1 John 3:16 tells us that we only know what love is because ‘ Jesus Christ laid down his life for us ’ . |
| 9 | Even if the case is founded on a real-life situation , we only know what happened when the organization tried one solution . |
| 10 | If a , b ε Z we say that a is less than b and write unc If we only know ( or care ) that unc we write unc ( b — a is the shorthand notation for the more accurate B + ( -a ) . |
| 11 | But it seems all too likely that the 21 married women who applied to rejoin the trade and the union in 1919–20 were war widows , although we only know this for sure of three of them . |
| 12 | The two-slit experiment neatly underlines a basic feature of quantum theory , that we only know where things are ( which slit they go through ) if we actually look and see . |
| 13 | GUIL : We only know what we 're told , and that 's little enough . |
| 14 | We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things . |
| 15 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 16 | We only know what our parents tell us . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , we only know each other because he worked for me — when he was a student . ’ |
| 18 | Firstly , we only know of the existence of these structures because of the waterlogged nature of the peat in which they are found , since without such conditions they would have rotted away and disappeared . |
| 19 | Perhaps a future valid contribution to this field could be made by a combination of experimental simulation of mechanical and chemical compaction in conjunction with the use of computer imagery in volume reconstruction ; at present we only know compaction is extremely effective at reducing both absolute volume and porosity in many sediments . |
| 20 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |
| 21 | We only know that they live somewhere in the Wokingham area . |
| 22 | And we only know that if it goes on for Monday afternoons for an hour , instead of |
| 23 | ‘ If we move to London , become bigger , when we come back we would want to play this place but there 's the danger that the manager is not going to pay us more than a hundred quid because we only draw a certain crowd … |
| 24 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 25 | Maybe we only fall in love once . |
| 26 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 27 | So we 're looking to there are n't we only relate to inferior women . |
| 28 | The two-stage compiler raises the intriguing possibility of gaining a direct C interface into Pick , but the company is adamant that the use of C rather than Flash Basic would be not only difficult , but also really naughty : ‘ that is not the intention ’ said one company official , adding ‘ we only mention the C interim step so that people can understand what is going on ’ — at least until , version 6.1 — of which , more later . |
| 29 | ‘ We only went there to see what British Waterways were doing , ’ said Ian . |
| 30 | Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats . |