Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a member leaves the band , he or she is only responsible for the debts incurred prior to his or her leaving . |
| 2 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 3 | Or it 's only class four occupation that ca n't have a four week |
| 4 | not know it immediately but if I say , Well what 's X plus seven times Y minus five or it 's only the same it 's exactly the same rules |
| 5 | Indeed , one old lady of 94 was interviewed on television and she proudly told the presenter ‘ I can now walk faster than my daughter — and she 's only 72 ! ’ |
| 6 | Overall assessment : Look , those press vultures are always being beastly about Fergie , which is jolly unfair because she ca n't answer back and she 's only doing what any perfectly normal gel would do if they found themselves in her shoes , OK ? |
| 7 | I 've had trouble twice and she 's only three weeks old . ’ |
| 8 | He 's nearly forty , and she 's only twenty-five . ’ |
| 9 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 10 | And she 's only eleven you see . |
| 11 | Six months , and you 'll be , three fifty , and she 's only just started getting three quid . |
| 12 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 13 | Housewife Vanessa MacMahon , 38 , whose three-year-old daughter Katharine has leukaemia , said : ‘ You can phone Katharine 's doctor at any time with any problem and she is only too glad to help . |
| 14 | And they 's only used a s short time of the year . |
| 15 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 16 | All this , and he is only 40 . |
| 17 | The Doctor manages to steal and activate the Time Destructor , but although the Dalek invasion force is wiped out Sara ages to death before his eyes , and he is only just rescued by Steven . |
| 18 | Shylock says himself that it is not only a Jewish teaching , it is also a Christian 's way of thought , and he is only doing what a Christian would do : ( Act 3 , Scene 1 , lines 54–55 ) |
| 19 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 20 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |
| 21 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 22 | And he 's only half a wolf . |
| 23 | ‘ My youngest could manage that lot and he 's only two ! ’ a man complained . |
| 24 | And he 's only NINE |
| 25 | And he 's only thirty-two . |
| 26 | He already has a record as long as my arm and he 's only eighteen . |
| 27 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 28 | And now it seems they 're loading the whole blame for Germany on him , and he 's only a corporal and the Army 's his whole — |
| 29 | And he 's only here ‘ coz the tax man came sniffing around . |
| 30 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |