Example sentences of "he [modal v] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could only await starvation , suffocation , exposure , simple fatigue or a merciful bolt of lightning . |
| 2 | He could only offer advice . |
| 3 | On the big day , he could only strike air |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 6 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 7 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 8 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 9 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 10 | He would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't want milk , he 'd only want tea . |
| 11 | He wanted to but was afraid he would only cause trouble . |
| 12 | By then the ‘ monster ’ has gone through many transformations , unable to decide who he is or which of his many disguises represents the true ‘ him ’ ; but he can only find liberty by killing the father who sired him . |