Example sentences of "only that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tradition required not only that she rot in constricted shade with the disintegrating corpse of her husband , but that she also eat a special diet for the entire period , which excluded any rice at all . |
| 2 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |
| 3 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 4 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 5 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 6 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 7 | I wished only that she had spoken to me before . |
| 8 | Only that she left as arranged , likening |
| 9 | Well not only that she said if I do n't get this job she said I 'm gon na |
| 10 | Shy and unhappy , she one day went to sleep in the spare room , hoping that he would come in to find her , but he credited her with his own temperament and thought only that she wished to be alone . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Only that she died and that he loved her . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’ |
| 14 | And er she says not only that she says er David is er saying to er Michelle come on and play with me and er come on in and play with me and , when Michelle will go in , he pushes Ashley out of the road and says well you 're not getting into my house . |
| 15 | Now I come to think of it , I do n't know much about her family at all — only that she 's got a sister and a mother somewhere in the States . ’ |
| 16 | Regan declares her love to be identical with Goneril 's , only that she has understated it ( we had scarce thought it possible to go beyond Goneril ) : To claim that your love for your father exceeds all the joys which can be derived from the senses — with your newly wedded husband standing by — is to claim too much . |
| 17 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 18 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 19 | ‘ No , only that she did n't see much of you … ’ |