Example sentences of "they were only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |
| 2 | But they were only hammers in a sense . |
| 3 | The finishing time of 8 o'clock came and went , and they were only beginning . |
| 4 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 5 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 6 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 7 | They were only minutes from the railway station , the service was frequent . |
| 8 | Physical disruption , fear , the adrenalin events — they were only part of it . |
| 9 | They were only eating what remained of the summer 's grass , but they had struck some chord in Mrs Monro . |
| 10 | They were only silhouettes in the dusk . |
| 11 | It seemed to me that hardly any left the building in those weeks of May without murmuring apologetically that they were only leaving in order to get some baking done at home ! |
| 12 | They were only symbols . |
| 13 | They were only weeks away from the examinations halls . |
| 14 | Strange dreams disturbed his mind : weird animals chased him down long dark valleys , but gradually he came to know that they were only nightmares . |
| 15 | They were only eyes , she told herself sternly . |
| 16 | They were only months older than the senior pupils , of course . |
| 17 | As for the males : they were only days away from their final shedding . |
| 18 | But these dead letters troubled him , physically even , because they were only beginnings . |
| 19 | ‘ They were only kids , ’ she said despairingly . |