Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously , Legal & General had only taken realised investment appreciation to p&l account as investment return . |
| 2 | There are many mixed marriages , and war has only strengthened friendships . |
| 3 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |
| 4 | And Liverpool have only got four free kicks . |
| 5 | CLIMBING OUT : And Riccardo has only bruised knees |
| 6 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 7 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 8 | Elsewhere in the Old Master section a group of rare School of Fontainebleau prints by Davent , Fantuzzi and others had only mixed success due to strong estimates . |
| 9 | Er but do n't I mean I 'm not the fact that erm some topics have a bigger number than others and others have only got one does n't mean they wo n't be on the paper Now , there will be some of you who will do spot revision . |
| 10 | Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part . |
| 11 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 12 | But SCAD has only got funding until the summer . |
| 13 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 14 | That site is big business but Sidney 's only got himself to blame . |
| 15 | One explosion from Bull and some serious sniping by Lineker could do the trick , but Yugoslavia have only lost twice in 20 matches since England routed them 4-1 in Belgrade in the European Championship two years ago and that wound was deep . |
| 16 | But Cleo had only laughed at his insults , and later added the scornfully thrown coins to her collection in the stocking drawer . |
| 17 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 18 | Gay understood , because she sometimes had it herself , but Felicity had only looked bewildered . |
| 19 | But Dave 's only got one book . |