Example sentences of "it 's only [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 2 | It 's only mucking around . |
| 3 | Her elder sister rebukes her : ‘ It 's only providing for its family ; it has a right to them . |
| 4 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 5 | ‘ Not likely , missis ; it 's only Jem keeping his Poll in order . |
| 6 | So if I put , oh no it 's only throwing it in n it ? |
| 7 | It 's only raining I mean |
| 8 | It 's only flashing . |
| 9 | It 's only flashing . |
| 10 | The council will balance its budget this year but it 's only getting an increase of 6.5 per cent and it needs 8 per cent . |
| 11 | It 's only appeared in Harlow and she told me it would get in the Bishop 's Stortford one but it has n't so far . |
| 12 | And years ago I used to have sciatica , round the nerve and but it 's only happens when I sit and then the last thing so I went to the doctors the other day and what they do , they see us around bash on , on the knee on the nerve and she said , all my muscles have gone ! |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mrs Aggie , ’ she said ; ‘ I 'll get me own back on her before I leave this place , you 'll see , if it 's only kicking her shins . ’ |
| 14 | Like it 's only played from your wrist . |
| 15 | It 's only tripped up and trip over there do n't you ? |
| 16 | ‘ It 's only done thirteen hours , ’ he replied . |
| 17 | Oh it 's a good car this yeah it 's only done two thousand miles . |
| 18 | And it would have shown on the certificate , the time of birth — it 's only done for multiple births . |
| 19 | So it 's only done twenty thousand miles |
| 20 | I mention that not in any boastful sense it 's only to reassure you that if I can do that then I , I ca n't be very much out of giving the wrong gen . |
| 21 | You recognise the anger you feel against your parents , but at this stage there 's little point in contacting them if it 's only to unload your bitterness . |
| 22 | It 's only to create an impression when you 're doing it in the day time . |
| 23 | Well it 's only costing Eddie 's brother a hundred erm one thousand one hundred pounds . |
| 24 | But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components . |
| 25 | And there 's more — Number Ones galore , from falsetto king Jimmy Jones ' Good Timin' to Conway Twitty 's It 's Only Make Believe … hard-driving , hipswinging dance-hall blasters like Sandy Nelson 's Let There Be Drums and Little Eva 's The Locomotion … and the pick of songs honouring the softer side of rock … the Platters ' The Great Pretender , Sam Cooke 's You Send Me and Tab Hunter 's Young Love to name just three . |
| 26 | Twitty , who was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins , has had more than 40 Country and Western hits , including the No.1 success , It 's Only Make Believe and Mona Lisa . |
| 27 | It 's only take you probably take you about twenty minutes , to do , Y equals log X , just use your calculator . |
| 28 | It 's only reminding her of what she has n't got . ’ |
| 29 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 30 | It 's only turned on dad ! |