Example sentences of "only [adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Only locally do we seem to have an orogeny at this time , which is confused ( as so much else in stratigraphy ) by nomenclatural anomalies .
2 But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be .
3 Only once have I had to put my indifference to the test by meeting an ex-boyfriend .
4 Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her .
5 But only recently have I come to think of you as stupid .
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