Example sentences of "only [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 2 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 3 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 4 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 5 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 6 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 7 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 8 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 10 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 11 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 12 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 13 | The members of the new lower class , of those who are not chosen for the meritocracy , not only are at the bottom but are there because they both deserve to be and know it . |
| 14 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 15 | Such a positive-sum game must be contrasted with a zero-sum game in which the game to some can only be at the expense of others . |
| 16 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 17 | It will only be at the end of time that God 's glory will be fully visible in the church . |
| 18 | QA activities may not necessarily only be at the end of the implementation phase . |
| 19 | The evidence from the case studies suggests that while change will occur it will only be at the margins , but this may be enough to achieve significant behavioural change in service providers . |
| 20 | Near me , in a white open-necked shirt with short sleeves was a stocky , rather wooden-looking man , who gave me a rather uncomfortable feeling of only being at the party because he had to be . |
| 21 | Two of the three brothers only were at home , and one of her sisters , who hung on our every word . |