Example sentences of "[pers pn] could only [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 2 | and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and |
| 3 | When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks . |
| 4 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 5 | But her mouth was dry with tension , and she could only manage orange juice and coffee . |
| 6 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 7 | She could only hope Dane would feel the same way . |
| 8 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 9 | Just so long as the two of them were involved professionally , she was at ease with him , but once that link was severed , she could only feel antagonism towards him . |
| 10 | There was so much about her that Louise admired , she could only suspend judgement on the rest . |
| 11 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |
| 12 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 13 | But we could only take care of little children ! |
| 14 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 15 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 16 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
| 17 | It could only mean trouble . |
| 18 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 19 | In either event , I believe that it could only cause confusion if we were dealing with more than one previous life at a time . |
| 20 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 21 | He could only await starvation , suffocation , exposure , simple fatigue or a merciful bolt of lightning . |
| 22 | He could only offer advice . |
| 23 | On the big day , he could only strike air |
| 24 | Say he somehow got to know of Aldhelm 's coming , even so by avoiding he could only delay recognition , not prevent it , he would have to reappear in the end . |