Example sentences of "but they [be] only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I was n't er but sure about taking the students whether put it in , but they 're only sending me four I think two for a month |
| 2 | They carry on dancing , but they 're only holding the attention of a small part of the audience . |
| 3 | He says it may cost the council a lot , but they 're only acting as guarantor . |
| 4 | But they 're only having one big present each this year . |
| 5 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 6 | Many researchers ' accounts bear witness to these skills , but they are only mentioned in passing and seem to have been taken for granted . |
| 7 | The lines of the formerly integrated drainage systems can be traced but they are only used by present-day floods in their upper tracts , so forming a characteristically disintegrated pattern . |
| 8 | You see even the the workshops , the railway workshops were working very hard you know , but they were only making make do and mend style . |
| 9 | Well , I do n't agree what they did , but they were only killing their own , their own kind , were n't they ? |