Example sentences of "[verb] you [modal v] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 2 | If you can not keep your home warm you will only have to stay in bed longer , ’ he said . |
| 3 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 4 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 5 | Who says you can only add water to Bisto granules ? |
| 6 | a hell of a lot really , normally you would n't have the vinyl and normally I would think you would only put the tongue and groove not out of the polystyrene behind it and the vinyl , I ca n't see why people want tongue and groove that they go to all those lengths would you ? |
| 7 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 8 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 9 | He thinks you can only appreciate its full pleasure after feeling pain . ’ |
| 10 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 11 | On the other hand , on a computer screen you can only see a small amount of information at any given time , whereas with index cards you can lay them out across a table or on the floor for an overview . |
| 12 | a boxing promoter who reckons you should only wear them for er n evenings , obviously . |
| 13 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
| 14 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 15 | Remember you can only use a Dispel Scroll once , so it 's important not to waste any . |
| 16 | Does , does that mean you can only go in winter here ? |
| 17 | I thought you 'd only fret over it . ’ |
| 18 | It 's very high , you know , the interest payments are very high , but for that money you 've borrowed you 'll only pay say , just for a a figure , five hundred pound back for that twenty thousand , five you know , |
| 19 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 20 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 21 | I think you can only spend your money once . |
| 22 | are going to be doing under the new contract think you could only learn from that really . |
| 23 | What I 'd say to you is , do n't mess up and throw away the opportunity you 've been given , because if you do you 'll only have yourself to blame . |
| 24 | There was no Michael , it 's just only way , co mind you could only do these on one-sided because when you turn your key the other side , it 's got ta be th exactly the same to do the job . |
| 25 | Omitting the scanning side means you can only fax things you can produce on a PC 's screen — you could n't easily add your signature to a letter , for instance . |
| 26 | right in thinking you can only have one TESSA ? |
| 27 | a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there . |
| 28 | If it 's written in BASIC , yes , but if it 's in machine code you can only PEEK individual addresses . |
| 29 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |
| 30 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |