Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] only [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 2 | Cos there were we were only getting about five bob a week aye . |
| 3 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 4 | It was only demolished about eighteen , nineteen seventy . |
| 5 | He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ? |