Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] it [be] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method of examination involves cutting a very thin slice from the object , which is fixed to a microscope slide and ground down until it is only 0.02mm thick . |
| 2 | But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards |
| 3 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 4 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 5 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 6 | Doyle let the little group of people walk on until it was only about two hundred metres away . |
| 7 | Wherever she went his eyes followed her and she wished he would speak even if it was only a harsh word . |
| 8 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 9 | Scales arrived back and it was only then that Wycliffe want into the office . |
| 10 | I discovered later that it was only the orange squash that had been spiked with gin . |
| 11 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 12 | It speaks with an unmistakable inner city accent from the centre of a world everybody recognises even if it 's only from the headlines in The Sun — a world full of ‘ social problems ’ where all the culprits and the victims live — ‘ niggers ’ , ‘ hooligans ’ , ‘ old biddies ’ . |
| 13 | The news that Amstrad Plc had a hot new personal communicator product on the way should have been in the market for a couple of weeks now — we reported it on March 1 ( CI No 2,117 ) but these things take time to filter through and it was only on Tuesday that the shares really began to respond , putting on 3.75 pence ; they added another 3.5 pence to 34.75 pence yesterday morning . |
| 14 | I remember an officer diving into a culvert during a raid — he thought he had been hit again but it was only a lump of mud on his seat ! |
| 15 | I emphasise again that it is only the nearest worlds in which the antecedent is true that count . |
| 16 | Parts of the sequence exist elsewhere but it is only in Bratislava that you find the complete set . |
| 17 | First , a small fragment of material is removed and stuck to a glass slide ; it is then carefully ground away until it is only 0.03 mm thick . |
| 18 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 19 | Seriously , though , shortcuts rarely work properly and it 's only half an hour 's work to get the job done . |
| 20 | At the same time the weight of the gold coin declined , the scale of its production was greatly reduced , and , at the end of the period , it too was debased so that it was only 70–80 per cent pure . |
| 21 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |
| 22 | See even if it 's only for the three days |