Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 2 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
| 3 | He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far . |
| 4 | Robertson is the twenty-three-year-old secretary of the Bruges Group , the all-party pressure group he founded while still an Oxford undergraduate , and which is dedicated to exposing the terrors of federalism within the European Community . |
| 5 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 6 | He knew that only a very good fighter — a much better fighter than he was could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw . |
| 7 | He knew that only a few not very helpful smudges had been found after Mary Connon 's prints , taken from the dead woman 's fingers at the post-mortem , had been eliminated . |
| 8 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 9 | In any case Burun thought that there was a wild streak in his daughter 's nature , and he suspected that only a mature man would be able to manage her . |