Example sentences of "and it only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A normal two page A4 fax can demand up to 200k and it only requires a moderate amount of activity before faxes are stretching the memory requirements of any system to the limits . |
| 2 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 3 | This was n't a major catastrophe , and it only took a minute to rectify , but it 's a clear case of poor quality control . |
| 4 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 5 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 6 | And it only managed to pay an interim dividend of 2.75p , compared to 5.5p last time . |
| 7 | And it only courses one year 's duration maximum one year . |
| 8 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 9 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 10 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 11 | Proof Let a be a prime in Z. Then [ by 1.3.5(iii) ] unc and a is not a unit , [ and it only remains to establish the property described in 1.3.5(ii) ] . |
| 12 | And he filled up and it only cost me five to tenner a week . |
| 13 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 14 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 15 | That small file , and it only takes half a second to combine that relatively small file to there . |
| 16 | I was n't so sure I was going to throw up now , but that same irresponsible , destructive part of my brain-just a few neurons probably , but I suppose there are a few in every brain and it only takes a very small hooligan element to give the rest a bad name — kept thinking about those fried eggs and bacon on the cold plate , and each time I almost heaved . |
| 17 | But then , unaccountably , its initial popularity dropped off , and it only had eight further performances that year . |
| 18 | And it only had the one door . |
| 19 | and it only had one over all the speaker |
| 20 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 21 | I recently had an interesting encounter with the honeybee and it only served to point out that regardless of size the degree of intelligence is quite extraordinary . |
| 22 | No , no , especially if you 've only got one daughter and it only goes threw once and , I mean the list is so long . |
| 23 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 24 | The problems of bulk transport had been solved before 1880 , with the coming of the steamship and the railway , and it only remained to spread and perfect them . |
| 25 | The seat can be used in both forward and rear-facing positions and it only needs one hand to fold it down . |
| 26 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 27 | She sensed his suspicion , and it only highlighted what she 'd known . |
| 28 | And it only needed the habitually mournful expressions of one of the dogs to deepen a little and I was round there post haste . |
| 29 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 30 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |