Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] only a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 2 | As there are several excellent histories of the development of town and country planning legislation ( Ashworth 1954 ; Cherry 1974a , 1974b ; Sheail 1981 ) , we shall give only a brief review here . |
| 3 | ( In fact we will use only a dichotomy of age by crudely grouping people above and below 45 , but we shall ignore that complication for the time being . ) |
| 4 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 5 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 6 | ‘ We — my brother and myself — because we are bankers , and very cautious , old-fashioned bankers — and also not young — we can have only a little answer . |
| 7 | Each of us can have only a tiny impact on creating a kinder , finer world . |