Example sentences of "it 's only " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've liaised with other organisations to make sure I 've got somebody coming in , even if it 's only to make me something to eat . |
| 2 | Your first Equity card will be a provisional one ; to become a full member you need to have worked for at least 30 weeks , not necessarily consecutively , Nevertheless , it 's only realistic to assume that you may face longish periods of unemployment and to be prepared to deal with this constructively . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only a first-year lecture . |
| 4 | It 's only a little thing , anyway . ’ |
| 5 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only temporary , ’ I kept telling myself . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's only just up the road , and besides , they take your money off you in Amsterdam . ’ |
| 8 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only what they all said . |
| 10 | Graham emphasised the fact that the breed needs plenty of mental exercise , too , even if it 's only basic obedience training . |
| 11 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 12 | It 's only in the Crime and Punishment notebooks that we read ‘ Love and Sonya broke him ’ . |
| 13 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 14 | Hatred of Jews is something that the Fascist is especially prone to , but it is n't a necessary consequence of his Fascism , and in any case it 's only a symptom , certainly not the root cause of his disease . |
| 15 | But he stressed : ‘ It 's only an idea , not a proposal , and it needs a lot more work . ’ |
| 16 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 17 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 18 | It 's only dirty play if there is intent there . |
| 19 | But it 's only 2.15 a.m ! |
| 20 | I left the cinema with a rush of questions , mainly about blood , and a wise response answered them all : ‘ It 's only a film . ’ |
| 21 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 22 | people say it 's only a film but they do n't know . |
| 23 | Fuck it , I often thought , it 's only a fucking Saturday job . |
| 24 | ‘ He came out to the hospital every weekend after I first came but since then it 's only every so often he comes out . |
| 25 | It 's only just launched the Sigma but is already pressing Japan for more volume , and pretty soon will have the new-generation Shoguns . |
| 26 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 27 | Yet Zelda says , ‘ I do n't think it 's only women who want to change their partner . |
| 28 | Even if it 's only for a few days both you and your baby will benefit . |
| 29 | It 's only my fun , you know me . |
| 30 | OK , mate , it 's only my fun , but Jack and me heard that one our last term at school . |