Example sentences of "would only [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it , again if you 'd only do things like jogging it will build up , if you 've got the right conditions , your heart y y your heart and lung ability , but in order to have this stamina that we 're talking about you 've got to have power . |
| 2 | He would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't want milk , he 'd only want tea . |
| 3 | Well , to tell you the truth , your boys asked me when had I last seen my father alive and I said Friday instinctively , and then by the time I 'd realized my mistake , it was all written down , and , you know , I thought if I changed it , that 'd only create trouble . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd only read Hamlet — no comedies — |
| 5 | They 'd only get holes in them . |
| 6 | The control theory would only eliminate alcohol abuse if consumption were reduced to zero — an unrealistic proposition , as the prohibitionists in the United States found out earlier this century . |
| 7 | It costs £49.95 , but an agent would only pay £30 . |
| 8 | But other customers would only pay £17 for dinner and £8 for breakfast , a total of £25 . |
| 9 | Yet the value of such a ‘ special circumstances ’ doctrine is limited , since it would only cover insider dealing in face-to-face transactions and so provide no remedies to those dealing though impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 10 | The difficulty from the outset was that the Treasury would only give approval for mandatory awards for DipHE students if it had a two ‘ A ’ level entry . |
| 11 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 12 | Okay , A gives up two units of reproductive success , a food item to B. This benefits B by three units of reproductive success , whereas it would only benefit A by only two units of reproductive success . |
| 13 | Adoption of EC Commission proposals would only grant copyright protection to those databases which involved intellectual and creative effort in their compilation . |
| 14 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 15 | The sums involved made it difficult to prevent the inflows from boosting the money supply by selling bonds , and in any case , if this were attempted it would only prevent interest rates from falling and keep the currency attractive to those anxious to get out of dollars . |
| 16 | Most people would only eat bran with breakfast cereal . |
| 17 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 18 | It was clear that she was n't wanted by Charlotte , and if Ernest did want her with them , then that would only make matters worse . |
| 19 | It would only make matters worse , she said . |
| 20 | Explanations would only make matters ten times worse . |
| 21 | Such a step , he said , would only make matters worse . |
| 22 | While the Treasury was warning of a " continuing mountain of difficulties " for some years to come , the Foreign Office argued that to reduce overseas commitments would only make matters worse . |
| 23 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 24 | It would only make Luke think that she was distrusting him again . |
| 25 | She knew that it was no use offering to make it : it would only make Bella angry . |
| 26 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 27 | Another speaker said that our presence would only draw attention and suspicion to their villages . |
| 28 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 29 | To continue would only mean chaos at the Cabinet meeting itself . |
| 30 | I thought she 'd be shocked but she was n't , although she said she thought I should try to forget him because it would only mean unhappiness for me . ’ |