Example sentences of "they only [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only get hundred pound do they ? |
| 2 | The Exiles had 5 Internationals in their team , but they only managed one try . |
| 3 | They only saw each other . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 5 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 6 | On , on , on the same day they only charge nine pound and i , everything 's valid up , insured up to fifteen thousand pounds per consignment . |
| 7 | They did n't believe in selling endowments , they only sold whole life you see ? |
| 8 | One view is that since France and Britain have developed only semi-token nuclear deterrents , they only require semi-token space programmes . |
| 9 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 10 | But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle . |
| 11 | The great Fangio ( Arg ) was also in the Maserati team but they only had one race together as team-mates before Fangio moved on to Mercedes . |
| 12 | They only had one objective — to save a few bob for the government . |
| 13 | ‘ They only had one chance , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Some graduates stride to the front of the little hall so easily you would not guess they only had one leg . |
| 15 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 16 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 17 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 18 | ‘ They only allow smokeless fuel these days , ’ said Preston . |
| 19 | The trouble is , they only have one edge . |
| 20 | I reckon they only have one door apiece , so she 'll be trapped . |
| 21 | They only have vegetarian food but they 'll use it . |
| 22 | er the Japanese now they went to Nissan , they only do one thing at , one thing each |
| 23 | And they only , they o they only do same job do n't they ? |
| 24 | They only used this house , called Moor House , in the holidays . |