Example sentences of "i only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut it out , God is in me ; He is my centre — let me only believe it , and His energy will flood the whole of me , and self will be drowned … |
| 2 | Suddenly , but predictably , the main actor enters the stage and speaks in a piercing voice , intelligible to me only because it is unmistakably one of alarm . |
| 3 | For me , as a lover , as a person , as a man , it 's not enough for me only to give — I want it back as well . |
| 4 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 5 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 6 | Mum takes me only because I mentioned to her that my periods have stopped . |
| 7 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 8 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |
| 9 | Speak to me only . ’ |
| 10 | The mountains of my youth were able to influence me only through the back window of a Ford Anglia , as we drove north for camping holidays in the rain . |
| 11 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 12 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 13 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 14 | Me and me only . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , I was trying to get all these things into my music , trying to sound like me only different in a way , and it never really worked . |
| 16 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 17 | You talk to me only when I ask a question . ’ |
| 18 | On the conscious level , sexuality was to me only one of the responsibilities of adulthood : as far the sexual act itself was concerned , I simply did n't want to know , as a child who is exposed to sexual information at an age when she/he feels incapable of absorbing it will not want to know . |
| 19 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 20 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 21 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 22 | This basic categorical imperative bids me only act on such a maxim as I can will should become a universal law to which all rational agents conform their behaviour . |
| 23 | With × 7 , the cluster appears to me only as an extremely dim blur adjoining Phi . |
| 24 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 25 | In these establishments , where one stays because there is no choice , the food is of a mediocrity , a predictability redeemed for me only by the good bread , the fresh eggs in the omelettes , the still relatively civilised presentation — which in Paris is becoming rare — the soup brought to table in a tureen , the hors d'oeuvre on the familiar , plain little white dishes , the salad in a simple glass bowl . |
| 26 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 27 | I thought you might just have remembered that , seeing that you typing it out for me only yesterday . ’ |
| 28 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 29 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 30 | Doing something you like , if you can give yourself half an hour , or an hour , you know just say this is for me , and for me only . |