Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 2 | It was a cheap alternative to buying from local merchants , but I was only allowed access to the provisions at points of safety such as towns and wells . |
| 3 | In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live . |
| 4 | But you are only protected as long as you keep your side of the arrangement . |
| 5 | ‘ But she 's only wrote one letter . |
| 6 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 7 | Many researchers ' accounts bear witness to these skills , but they are only mentioned in passing and seem to have been taken for granted . |
| 8 | The lines of the formerly integrated drainage systems can be traced but they are only used by present-day floods in their upper tracts , so forming a characteristically disintegrated pattern . |
| 9 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |
| 10 | ‘ But he was only beaten by four lengths in the fastest time of the night . ’ |
| 11 | But he was only apprehended four hours ago . ’ |
| 12 | The prolonged oesophageal acid exposure seen in patients with hiatus hernia is because of reduced acid clearance but it is only seen in patients with lower oesophageal sphincter deficiency . |
| 13 | Both holes and pockets can be cut in wood or plasterboard without having to drill a starting hole : but it 's only advised for experienced users . |
| 14 | But it 's only used in the bonny weather you see . |