Example sentences of "only [being] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Only being in love ? ’ |
| 4 | Despite only being in his 20's , it is his second house . |
| 5 | Then I jogged past them and I thought , that 's not fair because they were only being like everyone else . |