Example sentences of "[pers pn] be merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am merely a dyke-hag . |
| 2 | I am not concerned to defend that world ; I am merely trying to understand it , and the rules by which it lived . |
| 3 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 4 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
| 5 | ‘ I am merely chopping firewood in the salon and beating my mistress like a gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | I have , I should make clear , reread Miss Kenton 's recent letter several times , and there is no possibility I am merely imagining the presence of these hints on her part . |
| 7 | I am merely trying to describe aspects of life as they are experienced subjectively by others . |
| 8 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 9 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 10 | I am merely concerned to point out that a clarification of particular-identity is normally given in terms of our experience with things in perceptual space and perpeptual time . |
| 11 | I believe I am merely following along the path which he once trod out . |
| 12 | I am merely an ordinary man . |
| 13 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 14 | I am merely your psychiatrist , señorita . ’ |
| 15 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 16 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 17 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 18 | ‘ I am merely the messenger . |
| 19 | I am merely rounding my contribution off , by finding or , as I hope , by failing to find — some recorded trace of Summerchild 's work . |
| 20 | I am merely placing on record , as precisely as possible , the conditions that determined the starting-point of our inquiry . |
| 21 | Now I 'm merely frightened . |
| 22 | I 'm not forcing her , I 'm merely making a business proposition . |
| 23 | I 'm merely stating facts . |
| 24 | I 'm merely saying that their interpretation of certain policies is not coincident with my own . |
| 25 | I 'm merely casting a beady eye on it . |
| 26 | I 'm merely an administrator , an organizer . |
| 27 | Perhaps you still think I 'm merely being vengeful towards a dead scholar who ca n't answer for herself . |
| 28 | I 'm merely seeking that budget commitment . |
| 29 | I 'm merely explaining — ’ |
| 30 | I 'm merely reserving judgement . |