Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 2 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
| 3 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 4 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 5 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 6 | She knows only too well that if she finishes in front of McColgan , she is also likely to be the winner of the race . |
| 7 | She 's only just gone down , after givin' me her life story and what 'appened at her granddad 's funeral when a wheel came off the 'earse . |
| 8 | she 's , she 's only just had her money through , remember when we met them in Tenerife |
| 9 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 10 | Ali came about two I suppose and she 's only just gone . |
| 11 | Well she 's only just gone back tonight . |
| 12 | As she comes to , outside the duty-free wristwatches , it suddenly occurs to her that she 's only ever had one holiday with Chris before , and that was three days in northern France . |
| 13 | Phone in one hand , and sandwich in the other , that 's Linda , but she tells me she 's a good cook , and erm , she 's also told me there 's only , she 's only ever been with one guy in her life , |
| 14 | What is the difference between a candidate who performs inadequately , though he tackles quite difficult questions , and one who performs well though he tackles only specially selected easy questions , questions that do not for example raise any issue about linear or non-linear , progressive or retrogressive change ? |
| 15 | Its problem is that , as mentioned before , it goes only half-way : system and materials development are fully funded , but most students must secure local sponsorship and funding . |
| 16 | He goes only slightly pink at the sight of her Lesbian Switchboard T-shirt , speaks enthusiastically of his congregation 's Social Action Committee and seminars on Issues of the Day . |
| 17 | In fact it incorporates only very superficial observations . |
| 18 | It illustrates only too clearly the dangers of inviting outsiders to meddle in the machinery of Government . |
| 19 | In the first scene , where he has only marginally greater status than McKendrick ( his university is more prestigious ) , but where McKendrick is a stranger to him , he does not risk threatening McKendrick 's negative face ( the term used by Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) for the individual 's desire not to have one 's freedom impinged upon by others ) by encroaching on his conversational space through interrupting . |
| 20 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 21 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |
| 22 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 23 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 24 | He has only ever given me encouragement and support . ’ |
| 25 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 26 | It has only just begun . |
| 27 | As the song says , it has only just begun . |
| 28 | It has only just begun . ’ |
| 29 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 30 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |