Example sentences of "'s only [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 32 | But she said she does n't need them for Monday because it 's only when she takes the tests she gets in a panic not when she 's she said she can do it in the practice classes . |
| 33 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 34 | The front of the machine sports some graceful curves , but it 's only when you take a peek round the back that you get some inkling that this one is different . |
| 35 | And if you get It 's only when you get oily greasy stains that you think , oh I 'd better some ethanol or |
| 36 | So I said well it 's only when you 've just had a baby like , you know , like cows . |
| 37 | There 's nothing wrong with being friends — it 's only when you do summat selfish it 's wrong . |
| 38 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 39 | ‘ You know it 's only when I 've had a drink I stop hearing those damned machines . ’ |
| 40 | That 's brilliant but that 's only when it makes an E sound . |
| 41 | No it 's only because we made some on holiday when we went |
| 42 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 43 | And it 's only because they have no rights in what they 're negotiating for . |
| 44 | If the records popular when the University first opened are recognisable to us , it 's only because they have recently enjoyed their third or fourth revival in the charts . |
| 45 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ It 's only because I know you so well , Peachcake . |
| 47 | It 's only because I know Rome quite well that they 've asked me — Athens I do n't know at all . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Well , lad , it 's only because I think you 're worth somebody better than her . |
| 49 | ‘ That 's only because you know I 'll be more efficient at the job . |
| 50 | " That 's only because you 've had no practice , " Bower-bird said reassuringly . |
| 51 | I dare say , though , knowing you as I do , that it 's only because you 've thought up some other diabolical vengeance to inflict on me . ’ |
| 52 | And it 's only because you said , previously er , that she was a sort of feminist that when , he said do this do that and she said very frankly to him do you think just because I 'm going to marry you I shall commit ? |
| 53 | ‘ Well , it 's only because you gave me a leg-up at the beginning , explaining the theory and such . ’ |
| 54 | It 's only because you did n't tell your bloody brothers ! |
| 55 | ‘ It 's only because you stayed — and did what you did — that I can make light of it . ’ |
| 56 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 57 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 58 | But that 's only because he has learned to leave the jokes in the dressing room . |
| 59 | But no , it 's only because he reminds me a bit of him , that gloomy bit , that deep bit , that bit that dominated when his head sank into his shoulders and his mouth turned down and the light went from his eyes , that bit that took over when he resisted and turned inwards and moped . |
| 60 | ‘ Oh , David , really , that 's only because he knows perfectly well he 'll sell when we say how much . |