Example sentences of "[noun prp] be only [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers . |
| 2 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 3 | Equally inevitably , Tinnock was only penalised and not sent off . |
| 4 | Bates was only playing because £100,000-signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 5 | Bates was only playing because £100,000 signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 7 | So the important thing is that HIV is only transmitted when blood or cum goes from one body into another . |
| 8 | Madeleine was only tolerated because she had become the mistress of their leader 's son , Chicot , who was a psychopath and a cold-blooded killer . |