Example sentences of "it [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 2 | I could put it in it were only about ten inches long and I I made it and tapered it erm on a lathe , I put it my ear and side of casing and I could hear all what were going on inside . |
| 3 | It was only later that I discovered Ghatak was not only a director , but also , in his own , idiosyncratic way , a teacher and theorist of cinema . |
| 4 | It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized , with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres . |
| 5 | It was only later on that she started protesting strongly , and by then it was too late , he was close to coming . |
| 6 | It was only later that the significance of the surrendering of providing powers in 1930 became fully apparent to the District . |
| 7 | It was only later that the fate of the missing aircraft became known . |
| 8 | It was only later that they discovered that the mysterious column , which in the heat haze had looked like twenty-five Lancia trucks , had in fact been Timpson 's patrol . |
| 9 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 10 | It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst . |
| 11 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 12 | It was only later that the theory was refined to include anti neutrinos , when , for consistency with the conservation laws , the name ‘ antineutrino ’ was given to the variety produced by neutron decay . |
| 13 | It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy . |
| 14 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 15 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 16 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 17 | It was only later I learned that with so many religious activities , there are bells every few minutes . |
| 18 | It was only later that the company came to acquire a social and political direction ; in its inception it was an ‘ expedient solution to a technical problem ’ . |
| 19 | It was only later I suspected this was how they 'd obtained their detailed information about me . |
| 20 | It was only later that I realized that the tears were caused by rage and not by sadness . |
| 21 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 22 | It was only later |
| 23 | After all , it was only later that Rob had become serious about Heather . |
| 24 | Tracey had at first pretended not to mind her joining the group ; it was only later that his real bitterness about it emerged . |
| 25 | It was only later that Trivers began to link it up with Darwin . |
| 26 | However in nineteen thirty s nineteen forty seven this was n't actually realizing , it was only later on that they saw the incompatibility of the two aims . |
| 27 | Added Det Con Roberts : ‘ It was only later that the lady realised that her purse , containing around £220 in cash , had been taken . ’ |
| 28 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 29 | It was only later that I learned , quite by chance , that she was Janet Bloomfield , author of The Fallen Land , the recent prize-winning novel based on the tragedy of the collapse of the Paisley Close ( ‘ Heave awa ’ , lads ’ ) tenement in Edinburgh in 1862 . |
| 30 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |