Example sentences of "they [was/were] only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 2 | They wanted him to direct Mr Sloan to release the evidence against the parents , and at the end of the day they were only partially successful . |
| 3 | Presumably they were only here to set the scene for the current convention , as nothing represented a period later than the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | The modernisation of the Blackpool fleet by the acquisition of 116 streamlined cars between 1933 and 1939 , left the Standards looking decidedly old-fashioned , although they were only circa ten years old by then . |
| 5 | But they were only slightly injured . |
| 6 | But they were only slightly injured . |
| 7 | They were only ashore , the fishermen , on a Saturday night , unless the weather was against them . |
| 8 | And when they were down they were down , and when they were up they were up , and when they were only half-way up they were neither up nor down . |
| 9 | They were only just in time . |
| 10 | Vincent waded into his father with such anger that his expulsion from the house inevitably followed : such grossness was an offence to the fragile truce they were only just sustaining . |
| 11 | th they were only just breaking even . |
| 12 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 13 | But they were only just beginning . |
| 14 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 15 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 16 | knew , knew the minute walking , walking in , that they were only just coming in just to see |
| 17 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 18 | But they were only there a short time . |
| 19 | And , you could n't blame her June cos they were only there two years . |
| 20 | There 's a shortage of teachers in Germany as well as here and they were only too glad to see me . |
| 21 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
| 22 | They were only too positive emotions , requiring far more depth of concentration than Vologsky was capable of summoning |
| 23 | On one site the author recalls contacting the oldest locals , who advised that a site had only flooded once in living memory and they were only too pleased to point out a ’ flood line ’ still just visible on a number of buildings in the area after 30 years . |
| 24 | Since many English naturalists were also clergymen , they were only too willing to describe the species of animals and plants they studied as examples of divine craftsmanship . |
| 25 | They were only too used to the need for chivvying insouciant students into beginning some work for the module as deadlines approached . |
| 26 | They were only too aware of complaints from some seaside resorts about the descent of hoi polloi on them at bank holidays . |
| 27 | They were only too happy to oblige , but we decided to keep the sessions private . ’ |
| 28 | They were only too pleased to grant him early retirement back in September when they needed to shed staff . |
| 29 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 30 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |