Example sentences of "only [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you 're only my half sister . |
| 2 | Can I orange juice , only my orange juice please ? |
| 3 | Ember was only my admission price . |
| 4 | It has been tough going , finding out things about myself which were buried deep but with ministry from the leaders and looking to God for answers I believe he has healed not only my drug problem but has cleansed me from sin so that I feel clean . |
| 5 | ‘ Only my cousin Louis . |
| 6 | ‘ Only my confirmation pearls . ’ |
| 7 | Her frantic anxiety gave Marie extra strength : it was only her brute force that dragged the drum back when it skidded off the path and began to slither over the grass down towards the channel . |
| 8 | Only her friend Antonia knew where she was headed and she could be trusted to keep a secret . |
| 9 | in New Zealand the Church generally pays only its cathedral musicians . |
| 10 | It moved quietly up the River Thames , hidden by the darkness , only its warning lights visible on the black swirl of the water . |
| 11 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 12 | The Labour party has set out only its spending plans , including plans to spend £35 billion . |
| 13 | So take notice at once that only its CD remastering is new . |
| 14 | The result is a class of non-producers which owns the means of production and a class of producers which owns only its labour power . |
| 15 | Like the Cheshire cat , many great industrial enterprises , such as Firestone and Dunlop in tyres , have already vanished , leaving behind only their brand names as images to be exploited by their new owners . |
| 16 | The bill amended the 1964 Civil Rights Act to enable victims of intentional discrimination based on sex , religion or disability to claim not only their back pay and legal costs , as hitherto , but also compensatory and punitive damages . |
| 17 | Only their opening wish is new : ‘ Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! ’ |
| 18 | Two of his elderly constituents had lost not only their life savings , but their homes . |
| 19 | On top of that , proportionately more has gone to those who have only their state pension by way of benefits . |
| 20 | The current moves to encourage still further the provision of private occupational-pensions in preference to state schemes may serve only to emphasize the inequalities between some elderly people who are supported by one or even two occupational pensions , and those , particularly widows , who have only their state pension . |
| 21 | Throughout the remainder of the 1650s , successive governments presided over a wide diversity of religious practice ; large numbers of English men and women continued to frequent only their parish churches , many worshipped solely in gathered congregations of Independents , Baptists , and Quakers , and many more regularly attended both sectarian and parish worship . |
| 22 | In addition , it is based on historical data and , in any case , influences only their target allocation and not their actual allocation . |
| 23 | They would , in return , assign not only their Polaris submarines , but also their V-bombers and tactical nuclear delivery systems to NATO , subject to the usual overriding proviso : ‘ except where Her Majesty 's Government may decide that the supreme national interests are at stake . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 25 | Previous legislation , which came to force on January 1 , 1987 , permitted patients to see only their hospital records , but now the right has been extended to records made in all medical institutions , including records made by private practitioners . |
| 26 | This means that one brings to bear on the other the full range of mental associations that the culture attaches to it ; it is important to note that the objective meaning of words includes , for the New Critics , not only their dictionary definition ( sometimes called their ‘ denotation ’ ) , but also their associations ( or ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 27 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 28 | It was only we Palace Roadites , and a few more , for Lots Road Power Station had been the target and they had not missed . |
| 29 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 30 | Unlike many black kids who consider themselves singled out as possible sportsmen because of stereotyping , he found only his PE teacher took an interest in his sport . |