They can only properly be heard "if you listen carefully".
Her only properly functional husband was Martin Platt, who was merely an adulterer.
We can only properly answer the question — should we be arming the Syrian rebels?
Decorative and demonstrative; only properly steamed milk will hold a form.
The hunt for dinosaurs only properly began in China in recent decades.
The only properly named neighbour is Ursula Vaughan Williams, the composer's widow, who is played by Frances de la Tour.
Jagger is languid, bored and then sexually ambiguous and cruel, coming only properly to life when he sings the lyrics.
Hoffmann said she had only properly examined 500 works and could therefore not comment on the entire collection.
He's still only properly been in four films, which makes it a bit like a high-wire act, he suggests.
It is an unfair truth about human nature that we are only properly interested in single, maverick figures.
Oddly enough, this could be the only properly documented instance where graphology, the "science" of making inferences about personality from handwriting, has led to a positive result.
