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Example sentences for "only you"

  • Only you don't talk quite like a girl--well, a girl who has had no advantages.

  • You are dear, free Sue Bridehead, only you don't know it!

  • Only you don't know how bad I am, from your point of view, or you wouldn't think so much of me, or care whether I was engaged or not.

  • Only you won't be the odd-job man this time.

  • If only you wouldn't try to stop my going with him, you might go too.

  • Maybe it's always been hovering just over your shoulder, only you forgot to turn and see.

  • Yes, if only you'll be happy there," said Pelle, putting his arms round her.

  • Only you want to keep your head about it.

  • Well, you've become clever--if only you don't become as clever as seven fools.

  • If only you hadn't stayed out so long, dear, looking at the moon!

  • Well, if only you'll be satisfied with what I do, dear, and not blame me afterwards.

  • Only you know, Jerry, you mustn't mind WHAT it is.

  • Purdy sulked for a few paces, then burst out: "If only you weren't so damned detached, Dick Mahony!

  • I'd stick it like a lamb if only you'd give me that drink.

  • I'll 'and it over this minute, if only you'll take these damned things off my wrists.

  • And you'd be far more use to me later, Bunny, if only you'd try to do the same.

  • I daresay, however, I mean the same as they did, only you do not seem to have put their thought quite clearly.

  • Only you ought to have died with her, and not with me, a stranger.

  • Then, sir, to my old-fashioned ideas you would be a dishonourable fellow, to cast away the woman who has only you to look to in the world, that you may put another woman who has taken your fancy in her place.

  • Only YOU see it much more simply--and yet I can't just now explain.

  • It doesn't matter about me, only you, Angeel, only you!

  • There, my dear, there is the true French face, only you don't know it!

  • Only you can't come on unless you join because we need one more feller.

  • Only you have to be a scout if you want to come on here.

  • Only you've the grit to stand against it.

  • All you've got to do is to stick your knees into him and hold on by the mane when he's going up so steep a place that you begin to slip over his tail, and you're all right, only you have to kick at his nose when he tries to bite.

  • It's splendid, only you can't bathe when there's any sea.

  • There's such a view, and you can walk nearly all round the tower, only you have to be careful, or over you go.

  • Only you, you dear thing, will have to go in with him--to pilot him and look after him when the dishes are passed.

  • In my case there'd be only you to call me that--if you wanted to.

  • I would have given it to you when--when you brought up this subject last spring, only you didn't ask me.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cubic centimetres; only another; only came; only chance; only fancy; only four; only love; only meant; only necessary; only one; only party; only possible; only remains; only right; only sixteen; only surviving; only that; only then; only they; only this; only thought; only yesterday; quite naked; struck down; trade winds; yards west