Example sentences of "be only [adv] that she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's only recently that she 's started drinking orange juice I know But she has n't liked it at all . |
| 2 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 3 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 4 | Although the heroine of George Eliot 's Felix Holt renounces her inheritance , it is only so that she can marry the man she loves . |
| 5 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 6 | It was only partly that she disliked breaking arrangements , more that she wanted to let Cobalt see she was alive and well . |
| 7 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 8 | It was only then that she was aware of Nicandra standing silent in the doorway , unwilling to interrupt a conversation . |
| 9 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 10 | It was only then that she saw Sandra , standing concealed in the shadow of the eaves . |
| 11 | It was only now that she was happy with the girls in Littlewood 's Pools that Joe realised how much she had been hurt by the cattiness in her previous job . |
| 12 | It was only now that she began to realise that her feelings bore no relation to what she was experiencing now , with this man . |