Example sentences of "i [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cite only a few . |
| 2 | I have no commercial gallery and I sell only through commissions and the Royal Academy ; moreover having always had a teaching job , I have no real need to sell . |
| 3 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 4 | I made only the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials . |
| 5 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 6 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 7 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
| 8 | Yeah you see I 've only got fifty two and I 've got eight hundred quid less than you |
| 9 | And I do n't I 've only got one left . |
| 10 | Yeah see I 've only got like erm two quid on me and I need to get home tomorrow and and I wo n't have anywhere to stay cos Dan and Honey are n't going and I 'd rather stick with them and Emma and Nick and just go back to erm Nick 's house |
| 11 | When I refer to ‘ large quantities ’ I mean only that they are large in comparison with the amount of other types of bait one would normally use , i.e. 1lb of tares represents many thousands of particles , whereas 1lb of groundbait is a small amount . |
| 12 | I mean only what anyone would mean by saying that clouds mean ( i.e. are a sign of ) rain or , as in Figure 3 , that bees mean honey . |
| 13 | I mean only that if the problem is in their heads then the solution can be found in the same place . |
| 14 | you see because living here like this and er I mean , I mean only yesterday I heard of an people burst in the door and this old lady on the head and where 's your money and that sort of thing , you know , so it it 's really terrible . |
| 15 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 16 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 17 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 18 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 19 | But I eat only foods low in fat , I do n't eat between meals and I 've stopped bingeing . |
| 20 | Now I eat only one meal a day |
| 21 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 22 | PAMELA : I fear only for my heart . |
| 23 | I met only Peter on 30 May as Paul was ill , and that only briefly . |
| 24 | C. P. Snow I met only at feasts at Churchill College , where he was a Fellow . |
| 25 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 26 | If I make only one quote from er the sec second reading from the Noble Lord , Lord of Hadleigh what he said was that there that er er er the an any members appointed should be genuinely locally appointed . |
| 27 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 28 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 29 | I was terribly disappointed that I got only two " O " levels — for English Language and history . |
| 30 | Only then the nymphs were retreating at speed , in a flurry of droplets and giggles , so I got only fleeting views of slender backs and rounded behinds . |