Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 2 | But I 've only seen one or two , can we think about photocopying them if it 's that thin , because by the time it gets to me sometimes it 's not legible . |
| 3 | But I 've only seen it in some of the |
| 4 | A lot of titles for this year you may think , but I 've only scratched the surface . |
| 5 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've only had sex with one person , ’ you say . |
| 7 | Brain of Britain — I 'm struggling with todays Sun crossword — I know it 's embarrassing but I 've only got a degree in Chemistry and we all know that chemistry students are amongst other things the partners of defenders with no brains , i.e Weatherall and Newsome . |
| 8 | I want to subscribe to TSB , but I 've only got ancient copies of it , and do n't know how much it costs to subscribe thesedays , what the address is and who to make the cheque out to and all that . |
| 9 | It 's on marriage now , but I 've only got the one application form . |
| 10 | Well as I say I look after mine but I 've only got the one missing . |
| 11 | I have observed that this species can breed at sizes of little more than 1″ , but I have only seen this happen where a larger adult in my colony has died and been replaced by a young fish . |
| 12 | ‘ These include four species of cobra but I have only seen a cobra twice , ’ he said . |
| 13 | After getting an explanation , he replied : ‘ But I have only got one key . ’ |
| 14 | My ‘ old ’ boat was well known to the local seals , and they would allow a really close approach , but I have only had my present boat a couple of years and they are still suspicious . |
| 15 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 16 | To do the task requires X amount of pounds , but you 've only got X minus something . |
| 17 | But you 've only got a job in the mornings . |
| 18 | Er all very good , stay in control , excellent , very polished erm yeah y you 'd be worth an A but you 've only got C. |
| 19 | But you 've only got , if you w if you put chips in a basket in a chip pan if it , the fat boils up you can at least lift the chips out straight away but if you 're putting them straight into the pan there 's no hope of stopping it coming over . |
| 20 | But you 've only got one from there ! |
| 21 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , but you 've only sampled my pasta . |
| 23 | ‘ But you have only used the cottagers ' convenience as an argument , ’ said Duncan . |
| 24 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 25 | Maybe she had been too outspoken , but she had only stated the truth . |
| 26 | But she had only gone two steps when Guido spoke again . |
| 27 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 28 | Yeah , but she 's only got as much to learn as the girl that girl |
| 29 | and erm , she said oh well you know , were gon na try , and then , and then , I said well what about Elly she said , well she , she , I said swop with Elly , but she 's only got like a two bedroom |
| 30 | Yeah but we 've only done so much . |