Example sentences of "she is only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 2 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 3 | In foreign affairs she is only one national leader among many . |
| 4 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 5 | It is interesting to note , in the context of the present nationalist uprising in Scotland , that while the Queen is Defender of the Faith ( ironically , a title first bestowed on Henry VIII by the Pope ) and Head of the Church of England , she is only a member of the Church of Scotland . |
| 6 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 7 | ‘ But she is only eleven years old . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But inside she is only dust . |
| 9 | So far she is only able to see things from her own point of view . |
| 10 | ‘ She is only a woman , you know , sir , and a little nervous . |
| 11 | A herd of deer on the African plains may feed undisturbed when a lioness walks among them , if they perceive that she is only out for a stroll . |
| 12 | She is only encouraging them to use an instinctive faculty they already possess , to develop the already existent , mental and physical muscles . |
| 13 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |
| 14 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 15 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 16 | ‘ She is only a little girl and could easily have been attacked while she was standing there alone . ’ |
| 17 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |
| 18 | She is only a skeleton , but she believes she is still alive and highly attractive . |
| 19 | But I did support Mrs Robinson because although she is only a symbol she is a powerful symbol . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Raoul , remember she is only an opera singer . |
| 21 | Susan : Mrs C is prejudiced herself because , I mean , she said to Karen that she is only getting bad because she hangs around with too many black people . |
| 22 | She is only a child , surely . ’ |
| 23 | Della Grice , a service controller at Hygiene Bristol recently wanted to jump out of an aeroplane , a strange idea , thought other branch members particularly as now she is only 4′ 6″ ! |
| 24 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 25 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 26 | ‘ She is only a woman , is that it ? ’ said Zeinab , firing up . |
| 27 | Only able to take part in a limited range of activities at home and particularly seriously , she is only able to hold a conversation by the laborious method of tapping out her comments on ticker tape through using her cannon communicator . |
| 28 | As they hugged the 13-year-old outside a Blackpool hospital mother Audrey Rogers ( 38 ) , said : ‘ She is only young and she realises what she has done has been silly . |
| 29 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 30 | She is only . |