Example sentences of "was only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling as if I had just won a gold medal , I ran home , carefully examined my treasure to find that the ‘ bone ’ handle was only painted tin . |
| 2 | Many portraits of Wordsworth and Coleridge exist , though unfortunately Dorothy was only painted in her dotage . |
| 3 | This five-year-old was only beaten once in five outings last season . |
| 4 | By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle . |
| 5 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 6 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 7 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 8 | Beresford came under almost non-stop pressure for the final hour of the match but was only beaten once for all Huddersfield 's domination . |
| 9 | I tried to plead and argue but was only beaten for my pains and thrown down the steps back into my cell ; the dungeon door , grating shut , was locked securely behind us . |
| 10 | Was only beaten once by Tilson and given the game Tillo was having that is no mean feat . |
| 11 | Frankie Dettori 's mount did not get a clear run in the Group Two event but , despite finishing last of six , was only beaten around two lengths by Swing Low . |
| 12 | In fact he was only beaten in this twice on Ulster roads . |
| 13 | ‘ But he was only beaten by four lengths in the fastest time of the night . ’ |
| 14 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 15 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 16 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 17 | The use of small suffix letters after the fleet numbers of the cars from municipal fleets , was only regarded as a temporary measure and it was decided to renumber them , either in gaps in the L.C.C . |
| 18 | Both courses claimed to cover all topics , except Syllabus Design which was only covered by one . |
| 19 | But he was only Miguel acting . ’ |
| 20 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 21 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 22 | He also received the personal support of the former President ousted by Ould Taya , Mohammed Khouna Ould Haydalla , who was only freed from internal exile in 1991 , and of Col. Djibril Ould Abdullahi , Ould Taya 's former deputy and Interior Minister until February 1990 [ see p. 37239 ] . |
| 23 | Again , she felt she was only entertaining him as he might have been entertained by a clever child . |
| 24 | The door was only pushed to , though it still took some fancy paw-work to haul it open . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , adoption of the bill was only pushed through after an angry demonstration outside the Supreme Soviet building on Aug. 18 in protest at blatant delaying tactics by Gumbaridze . |
| 26 | ( As his dreams of conquest crashed , Hitler consoled himself with the thought that Allied bombing was only destroying what he had intended to demolish anyway , to make place for his own buildings . ) |
| 27 | Everybody sitting around me in the dark knew something that I did n't know , because they were real Catholics and I was only pretending . |
| 28 | She opened the front door and stepped out into the corridor , which was more private than the flat if mother was only pretending to be asleep , which was possible . |
| 29 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 30 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |