Example sentences of "[pers pn] only a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again . |
| 2 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 3 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 4 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 5 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 6 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 7 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 8 | I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven ! |
| 9 | Alternatively , it will cost you only a couple of stamps ( Ed 's note : Do please always enclose an SAE ) to write and ask me before you do something . |
| 10 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 11 | They only a pay a quid more for Lucy , so I 'm bloody well gon na have Lucy ! |
| 12 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 13 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 14 | On one occasion , he screamed for the guards , saying someone had stolen the contents of his Red Cross Parcel , leaving him only a tin of beans and of jam . |
| 15 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 16 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 17 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 18 | Is it only a fortnight ago , Dorothea asked herself in amazement ? |
| 19 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 20 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 21 | Is it only a paper tiger , or does it really have teeth ? |
| 22 | Was it only a desire for conquest ? |
| 23 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 24 | • Decide on the space that is wholly yours , even if it only a table somewhere . |
| 25 | Nor is it only a matter of government consulting people about what it proposes to do . |
| 26 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 27 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |