Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 2 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 3 | However , reports said that NPFL fighters had only intensified their fire , and by the following day full-scale fighting was going on , with Nigerian jets , artillery and warships attacking rebel positions . |
| 4 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 5 | Portugal had only agreed to participate at the last minute , reportedly fearing that the summit would otherwise be geared to increasing the influence of Spain in the region . |
| 6 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 7 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 8 | The report added that the study had only considered 35-64 year-olds , and that " the estimated effect would increase dramatically if older age groups were included in the analysis " . |
| 9 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 10 | Before this year , Carlie had only received one chance of a retainer and that was from Nicky Henderson back in 1989 . |
| 11 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 12 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 13 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 14 | By the end of the year Husayn had only obtained a fraction of the funding he sought . |
| 15 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 16 | These tumour areas contained only scattered L1 + granulocytes and some of the eosinophils ( 0- 20% ) seemed to lack L1 . |
| 17 | The Bazaar totally exceeded all expectations , and was a rousing success , raising in excess of £6,000 when the Building Committee had only dared to hope to raise at the most optimistic a sum of £5,000 . |
| 18 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 19 | Lorraine Allard had only had four days ' warning before leaving from Berlin : |
| 20 | Finding the bodies in the gas station forecourt had only served to convince him his way would be best for everyone — as well as making the world a safer place . |
| 21 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
| 22 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 23 | The only positive aspect of the strike from the Party 's point of view was that the miners had only formulated demands about their conditions of work and life . |
| 24 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 25 | The only mail I get from Czechoslovakia is a junk mail actually , it 's all about some wine club that I never want to belong to , but erm , if Darwin had only opened it , er do n't throw it away , it could be , it could be th it could be the paper from that will save you infinite trouble . |
| 26 | The Institute had only had three weeks to produce all documents and the plan for practical embalming for the NVQ Committee , and the three members concerned had completed the task within that three weeks . |
| 27 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 28 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 29 | Her fingertips had only fluttered around him in butterfly ecstasy . |
| 30 | On one site the author recalls contacting the oldest locals , who advised that a site had only flooded once in living memory and they were only too pleased to point out a ’ flood line ’ still just visible on a number of buildings in the area after 30 years . |