Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 2 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 3 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 4 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 5 | Seriously , though , shortcuts rarely work properly and it 's only half an hour 's work to get the job done . |
| 6 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |