Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 2 | When I reminded them that only an hour ago they were saying they did n't fancy any more , they looked genuinely irritated . |
| 3 | But you see what Freud , what Freud fastens on there and is something that only a psychoanalyst could do , is , is that there 's a discrepancy in the story . |
| 4 | She was gone before they could utter a sound and arrived at her own room grinning widely , pleased with herself and only a little upset that Felipe was with that woman . |
| 5 | But at 17 stone , the health authority 's told her that only a 20-inch chair will do . |
| 6 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 7 | I know that girl , know her as only a mother can , and I know she 's not well . |
| 8 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 9 | The Tories were heading for disaster if they continued to delude themselves that only a little fine tuning of presentation was required to secure a fourth consecutive general election victory . |
| 10 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |
| 11 | His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 . |