Example sentences of "[pers pn] was only [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 2 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 3 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 5 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 6 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 7 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 8 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 9 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 10 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
| 11 | It was only a few minutes . |
| 12 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
| 13 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 14 | It was only a few minutes before we decided on the Bell . |
| 15 | It was only a few steps , but now she was leaning on his arm for steadiness rather than support . |
| 16 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
| 17 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |
| 18 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 19 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 20 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 21 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |
| 22 | It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee . |
| 23 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 24 | It was only a few seconds later , just as she was finishing an easy row of plain knitting , that she heard the tinkle of Faye 's bell , a clamorous , urgent sound that cut across the dreamy mood of the October afternoon . |
| 25 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 26 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 27 | Dr Enevoldson said the more records of blood and bone marrow types she has , the more chance of helping patients like the England and Spurs striker 's baby son , who was taken ill with a form of leukaemia when he was only a few months old . |
| 28 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |