Example sentences of "he [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aah said as 'ow 'e 's only a poor little thing . ’ |
| 2 | Keepers can have the one off season … to be fair this season AFAIK he s only made the one ‘ howler ’ . |
| 3 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 4 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 5 | In many ways he is only partly successful . |
| 6 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 7 | He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him : |
| 8 | The cold-bloodedness of this experiment becomes apparent when we discover that chess was not one of Polgar 's great interests ; even now he is only a mediocre player . |
| 9 | After three winners yesterday , he is only seven short of his century , while Jonothan Lower maintained his strike rate on the Pipe horses with a Taunton double on The Leggett and Ambassador , giving him 21 winners from just 34 rides . |
| 10 | After three winners yesterday , he is only seven short of his century , while Jonothan Lower maintained his strike rate on the Pipe horses with a Taunton double on The Leggett and Ambassador , giving him 21 winners from just 34 rides . |
| 11 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 12 | He is only 1lb better off for about ten lengths . |
| 13 | The commonest explanation of King Hussein 's behaviour is that he is only doing what he has always done best : surviving . |
| 14 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 15 | It was a criticism to say of someone ‘ he is only interested in money ’ : people expected him to provide peace and tranquillity for his family , a guestroom where people might meet ; people said a rich man should further his spiritual interests by going to Mecca and , if very rich , by building a mosque . |
| 16 | He ca n't give me any straight answers about all this because he is only concerned with the state-run prison service . |
| 17 | … liable to come into conflict with the organisational hierarchy and at least to give the impression that he is only conditionally loyal … |
| 18 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 19 | Meintjies was equally impressed by John , writing in his diary that this ‘ young ballet dancer and choreographer , who is undoubtedly brilliant , dominated the guests — although he is only seventeen . ’ |
| 20 | He is only a baby . ’ |
| 21 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 22 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 23 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 24 | He is only obliged to pay you Statutory Sick Pay . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr. Bishop is mistaken in thinking we are litterbugs , but he is only doing his duty in taking steps to protect Ferngrove Park . |
| 26 | Just why the particular setting should be effective does not worry the motorist particularly , since he is only concerned with one car , not motor engineering in general . |
| 27 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 28 | It seems to him that he is only really preoccupied with Andrew 's leg when he thinks that Andrew is himself . |
| 29 | My younger brother is holding my left hand but he is only vaguely present , shadowy . |
| 30 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |