Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method of examination involves cutting a very thin slice from the object , which is fixed to a microscope slide and ground down until it is only 0.02mm thick . |
| 2 | But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards |
| 3 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 4 | Doyle let the little group of people walk on until it was only about two hundred metres away . |
| 5 | Wherever she went his eyes followed her and she wished he would speak even if it was only a harsh word . |
| 6 | It speaks with an unmistakable inner city accent from the centre of a world everybody recognises even if it 's only from the headlines in The Sun — a world full of ‘ social problems ’ where all the culprits and the victims live — ‘ niggers ’ , ‘ hooligans ’ , ‘ old biddies ’ . |
| 7 | First , a small fragment of material is removed and stuck to a glass slide ; it is then carefully ground away until it is only 0.03 mm thick . |
| 8 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 9 | See even if it 's only for the three days |