Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 2 | They had fought back , and it had felt the sting of their fight which had only served to make its hunger and hideous needs greater . |
| 3 | Peter Hickton , unaware that cooperation could be bought by payment of ‘ negotiated extras ’ , responded to the crew 's apparent lethargy by throwing one of his tantrums , which had only served to make them less willing to help out . |
| 4 | He also replaced Leonid Kravchenko as Chairman of the USSR Broadcasting Company by RSFSR press minister Mikhail Poltoranin , temporarily banned newspapers which had only printed SCSE decrees , dismissed the chairmen of Tass and Novosti , and replaced Samsonov as commander of Leningrad military district by Rear-Adml . |
| 5 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 6 | How to make sense of Lucy and this dizzying all-consuming pain ; how to find a meaning for her life which had only acquired meaning with Lucy as its radiant centre . |
| 7 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |