Example sentences of "'re only [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're only vagabonds , not real Romanies , ’ Farmer Yatton told Cheryl and Angela-when he came back to the farmhouse after seeing the gipsies off his land . |
| 2 | Yeah they 're only nicknames . |
| 3 | And they 're saying They are saying that we 're only ones they get pallets like that from . |
| 4 | They 're only stars , she thought . |
| 5 | They 're only women after all . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're only things . ’ |
| 7 | They 're only baskets to keep the birds off . |
| 8 | They 're only stories in the Book of Remembering . ’ |
| 9 | Even if it means they 're only inches ahead in the three mile crawl along the rest of the road at least they 're in FRONT . |
| 10 | The only trouble is they 're only offers . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're only friends , Georg , ’ she said gently . |
| 12 | They 're only mushrooms |
| 13 | They 're only statues — I know that — but they look really real , just like a real family sitting round a table just about to eat their Christmas lunch . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're only letters . ’ |
| 15 | The heading is not quite right , financial considerations , because they 're not true finances they 're only plays of measuring whether your programme is optimistic or pessimistic . |
| 16 | But they 're only numbers . |
| 17 | And you think , Well they 're only numbers . |
| 18 | If she did n't discipline the children he still would not intervene and would just say ‘ Well , they 're only children once ’ . |
| 19 | They 're only humans , people who have to go to the toilet and fart just like the rest of humanity . |
| 20 | They 're only men , after all . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 're only shrimps . |
| 22 | OLD Ebenezer , Owd Roger and Dizzy Dick are to visit Darlington later this week but rest assured they 're only beers . |
| 23 | Those ones or , are n't too bad though cos they 're only marks . |
| 24 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 25 | I know they 're only kids , they do n't really mean it , but sometimes I shout at them . ’ |
| 26 | And , ah , oh aye , and she says they 're out playing and the s and she says you know what kids are like Jean , and she says like I would n't try even to say to my kids not to go near them because you would n't tell them because they 're only kids and she says they 're like playing in the square and she says like I would David and down here you know when I was coming down |
| 27 | They 're only pigs , this is only a British abattoir , and they 're only on their way to the supermarket . |