Example sentences of "and she [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one old lady of 94 was interviewed on television and she proudly told the presenter ‘ I can now walk faster than my daughter — and she 's only 72 ! ’ |
| 2 | Overall assessment : Look , those press vultures are always being beastly about Fergie , which is jolly unfair because she ca n't answer back and she 's only doing what any perfectly normal gel would do if they found themselves in her shoes , OK ? |
| 3 | I 've had trouble twice and she 's only three weeks old . ’ |
| 4 | He 's nearly forty , and she 's only twenty-five . ’ |
| 5 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 6 | And she 's only eleven you see . |
| 7 | Six months , and you 'll be , three fifty , and she 's only just started getting three quid . |
| 8 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 9 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 10 | Mollie Salisbury had designed several gardens for friends , as well as her own at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire , and she was only too delighted to help plan a garden from scratch . |
| 11 | Patsy , looking like the faithful old black mammy slave in a film except that she was white and she was only twenty-five . |
| 12 | Annabel , who always excited more by her appearance than her standard of play , knew she would soon be going to the ball as Cinderella and she was only playing in the National Championships on a whim . |
| 13 | And she was only five . |
| 14 | And she was only fifteen . |
| 15 | Miranda sensed her family had come to the rescue , and she was only keen to show that she was striking out boldly , freestyle , not sinking . |
| 16 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 17 | ‘ All my prettiness comes from her , and she was only a dairymaid . ’ |
| 18 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 19 | And she was only just gathering breath to protest when his lips eventually captured hers , their sweetness instantly filling her with a warm , deep pleasure . |
| 20 | And she was only trying to help . |
| 21 | And she was only nine at the time ! |
| 22 | and she was only a bit older ? |
| 23 | And , I mean , we , we was on about it one day , and she was only sat on the table next to us , ooh she was giving us daggers ! |
| 24 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 25 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |