Example sentences of "[verb] only be [prep] " in BNC.
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31 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
32 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
33 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
34 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
35 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
36 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
37 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
38 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
39 | I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call |
40 | I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know . |
41 | Well we 've only been to the dentist here . |
42 | ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before . |
43 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
44 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
45 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
46 | ‘ I 've only been in once . |
47 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
48 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
49 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
50 | That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the . |
51 | Well I 've only been from |
52 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
53 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
54 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
55 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
56 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
57 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
58 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
59 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
60 | True , he had only been on the periphery , a bit-part player who could usefully be dragooned into secondary roles when a little muscle was required . |