Example sentences of "they only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grindal worm are a dwarf form of white worm , which they look like , except that they only reach a length of half an inch . |
| 2 | Do they only give you free parts under warranty if it 's serviced with a ? |
| 3 | They only stick to Union regulations when it suits them . ’ |
| 4 | The two sub-set attributes of base part refer to this drawing file , as they only contain details of changes to the base part . |
| 5 | They only hear half of what God has been saying . |
| 6 | If the adventurers free the man , they only get attacked for their pains ; he is actually a Doppelganger . |
| 7 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
| 8 | They only get dirty , greasy and in the way . |
| 9 | It responds to requests from those countries and , usually , they only get what they ask for . |
| 10 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 11 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 12 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 13 | Nowadays they only get sales like that if one of the Philharmonic Orchestras is in residence round the corner at the Barbican . |
| 14 | They only get your skin clean ma . |
| 15 | cos they only get what they paid . |
| 16 | They only get hundred pound do they ? |
| 17 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
| 18 | And they only get advantage of getting |
| 19 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
| 20 | The Exiles had 5 Internationals in their team , but they only managed one try . |
| 21 | They only managed to convert one of them , when Shaun Taylor found the time and space in a crowded penalty area to knock home the equaliser . |
| 22 | It was true that they only charged ‘ a nickel , five pennies , a half a dime ’ . |
| 23 | When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains . |
| 24 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 25 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 26 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 27 | They were so incensed that they flew to Los Angeles officially to deny charges that ‘ they only sang about 20 per cent of the music on their 1988 album , Hanging' Tough . |
| 28 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 29 | They only change their form |
| 30 | They reckon the average French woman do n't change their knickers , they only change it every two days or something and all sorts they do n't shave . |