Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gardner 's script contains other doubtful gems such as , ‘ I keep thinking , how come I 've got kids and I 'm only eighteen years old . |
| 2 | Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text . |
| 3 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 4 | Edinburgh District Council has a strong commitment to equal opportunities and I am only too happy to support an event at which the many different cultures , religions and experiences of women in Edinburgh today were represented . |
| 5 | Somewhere underneath the pebble lenses , tinged both grey and pink , the steel traps and the wires were , presumably , a pair of eyes but they were only , really , a flicker , in the depths of the optician 's pièce de résistance that towered above Ruthie 's nose . |
| 6 | Oh oh I just recorded that I was gon na keep all the words but I 'm only joking |
| 7 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 8 | These older boards still sail perfectly well in lighter winds and it is only when you start improving to stronger wind conditions that the difference becomes apparent . |
| 9 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ In future there will be no access through these gardens but it is only two swims and the rest of the canal can be accessed via other routes . |
| 11 | And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots . |
| 12 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 13 | The company is not required by law or accountants and auditors to provide management accounts and they are only prepared at the discretion of the company . |
| 14 | We work 24 hour shifts and I 'm only one shift . |
| 15 | He 's this year 's all British Scrambling Champion , is regarded as one of the best riders in Gloucestershire and in the last 12 months , he 's won dozens of awards and trophies and he was only 7 last week . |
| 16 | During the inter-war years commuting was encouraged by the railway companies and by speculative builders and it was only after the Second World War that the more widespread use of the car and the continuing electrification of the railways allowed the commuting zone to be extended further . |
| 17 | If you can manage a visit of two to three days ( or even just one day ) it is well worth it — the modern boat takes 1½ hours and it is only a matter of minutes in the small jet aircraft . |
| 18 | It was all at my fingertips and I was only too pleased to be of some assistance , from whatever quarter the request came . |
| 19 | She 's give us twenty tapes and I 'm only tape five and she 's coming for 'em tomorrow . |
| 20 | No it 's really good , you can have them for like two days and it 's only a pound , it 's really good . |
| 21 | Everybody sitting around me in the dark knew something that I did n't know , because they were real Catholics and I was only pretending . |
| 22 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 23 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been fascinated by the IBM Environment for the past 20 years and I am only too pleased to unravel its complexities to those of you attending this seminar . |
| 25 | Literature on the use of traditional Chinese medicine has existed in China for over 4000 years but it is only in recent times that western scientists have been alerted to its hidden potential . |
| 26 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 27 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 28 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless liberalism succeeded in destroying the fueros and it was only after its triumph that conservative liberals challenged the maxim that ‘ centralization is neither more nor less than liberty itself ’ . |