Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb mod] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bu I mean I 'd only advise those if you have like er you know , children with grubby hands and |
| 2 | Alan what I I do n't know the answer to what you 're proposing I really do n't know the answer and er I mean I can only go on the , my , my experiences and my experiences are I 've never ever consciously or not aware of ever having bought any as a result of |
| 3 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 4 | If you can not keep your home warm you will only have to stay in bed longer , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 7 | Are you going to , when you do your care packages say we can only award so much , we 'll have to reduce it , arbitrarily ? |
| 8 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 9 | The police say they can only do their job if that information 's kept secret . |
| 10 | Border police say they can only stand by helplessly as Poles , returning home with their stolen Mercedes and BMWs , suddenly accelerate past them . |
| 11 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |
| 12 | Since you seem to know whereof you speak I will only say that you must know that the burden of restraint by means of the … mechanism … employed will , of necessity , fall upon the man . |
| 13 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 14 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 17 | Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits . |
| 18 | Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas . |
| 19 | If we stay here I know I 'll only become more maudlin . ’ |
| 20 | Even if it 's true that I would have gone to prison to protect somebody else or make some dubious point about the freedom of the press , I know I 'd only have been doing it to make myself look good . |
| 21 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 22 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Remember you can only use a Dispel Scroll once , so it 's important not to waste any . |
| 25 | You know we will only do so much and we need to do more . |
| 26 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 27 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 28 | I suppose I could only use the word tons . |
| 29 | All the best rock bands come out of art colleges , etc … and it 's still the case they find they can only reproduce music from Beethoven , Mozart , etc . |
| 30 | To say again I applaud the principles of the Fellowship and believe it will only benefit us woodworkers who often feel alone and rather estranged sometimes , and to say on a personal level that our conversation with you at the show remains the most memorable point of the whole affair to my wife and I. |