Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [verb] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 2 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 3 | With the best counselling in the world , it is n't possible for a person like me , sometimes feeling guilty at even being alive , firm in my belief that I have only to breathe to be a nuisance , to suddenly switch through 180 degrees and see myself as white or even grey after seeing myself as black for sixty years . |
| 4 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 5 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 6 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |