Example sentences of "[noun] it only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 2 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 3 | Indeed , and by statute , in some senses it only begins . |
| 4 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 5 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 6 | ‘ After that , on each check it only calls up those items which have been active since . ’ |
| 7 | When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out . |
| 8 | With such a tool it only needs a little extra pressure to severely weaken the main trace line . |
| 9 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 10 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 11 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 12 | Oh he 's not a character it only works in |
| 13 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 14 | Those who were seriously engaged in geology or biology could not allow such reasoning either , although in a sense it only represented the idea that science can not deal with origins , carried to an extreme . |
| 15 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 16 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 17 | Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’ |
| 18 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 19 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 20 | Look we could make some chocolate ones it only makes twelve . |
| 21 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |
| 22 | And you 'll see er for this er little section of recording the channel opens very infrequently , in fact it only opens once , to a level of three picoamps . |
| 23 | We know from other reported series it only happens on a very , very small number of patients . |