Example sentences of "i [modal v] only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll only choose peach , burgundy with a pattern in , okay ? |
| 2 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll only suggest Walkmans |
| 4 | I 'll only do pastorals , gentle love stories , boy-and-his-dog stuff . ’ |
| 5 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 6 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 7 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 8 | and so I could only have marmite or fruit to eat and |
| 9 | When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks . |
| 10 | She emphasised that I could only share rooms with someone Tata would have considered ‘ acceptable ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers . |
| 12 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 13 | I 'd only read Hamlet — no comedies — |
| 14 | The application of evolutionary ideas to the study of knowledge has recently been urged by a number of people , but I shall only discuss Campbell 's evolutionary epistemology ( Campbell 1974 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I will only have eyes for you . ’ |
| 16 | On the remarks that women 's contributions in the field of business , finance , religion , charity work , etc , were totally ignored , I can only assume Alexandra Wallace overlooked the extensive exhibitions on the work of the Church of Scotland Woman 's Guild , Oxfam in Scotland , Amnesty International and the Scottish Refugee Council ( I could go on ) . |
| 17 | " I can only treat Dr Dunstaple as I would treat any of my patients and I fear that your father would not agree to my methods . |
| 18 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 19 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 20 | I can only give evidence and if they do n't believe my evidence , he 's innocent . |
| 21 | I can only pass comment on when I went through my training because it 's all changed . |
| 22 | I can only hope Mal Reilly does not forget me . ’ |
| 23 | From the perspective that I write , I can only take matters as I find them . |
| 24 | I can only put money there . |
| 25 | I had visited his tomb in Westminster Abbey before starting on this trip , and read the words there , from the last entry in his diary : ‘ Here in my solitude , I can only ask God 's blessing on the men — whether British , American or Turk — who will help to heal this open sore of the world . ’ |
| 26 | I I said well I suppose it 's I do and he said but you work hard June , I said I know but I said kno I said what I do , I can only have hour out there and an hour inside . |
| 27 | I can only attribute Dawn 's remarks to her excessive loyalty . |
| 28 | How I do need to look away from self to God , I can only find satisfaction : in him . |
| 29 | Again , I can only indicate beginnings here , but the possibility of parody brings me back briefly , at the end , to the question of difference , repetition and value . |
| 30 | I can only praise Naomi Wolf 's clean , direct , piquant exposition and visionary commonsense and hope that many , many women and men will read her book . |