Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may only be pretending . |
| 2 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 3 | ‘ Said I should only be pretending . |
| 4 | Nothing serious today , you should only be flying up your own arse ! |
| 5 | At 31 Centre Halfs should only be coming into their prime , Paul McGrath is a case in point . |
| 6 | we 'll only be briefing the interview staff |
| 7 | But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine |
| 8 | I 'll only be sitting in the coffee shop till five past five anyway like so |
| 9 | So you 'll only be letting yourself down . |
| 10 | So th the chances are we might only be looking |
| 11 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 12 | It could only be wrestling and the worst sort — American wrestling . |
| 13 | They also seemed to have what could only be snorkeling devices on the tops of their heads . |
| 14 | It could only be damaging to commercial life . |
| 15 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 16 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 17 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 18 | would be slightly different because they , we 'd only be collecting a part of the premium we would n't be collecting their investment part if that 's in arrears . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd only be storing up grief for ourselves . ’ |
| 20 | and the deck , so you make what say , a hundred quid there , cos brand new speakers and a brand new record deck so you 'd only be paying four hundred quid for it |
| 21 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
| 22 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 23 | He declared that peace would only be lasting if it was based on the principle of " no victor , no vanquished " . |
| 24 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 25 | Telling you the full story would only be telling you half . |
| 26 | So that if our speaker for example had been John from the Halifax Building Society he would only be talking about Global Investments . |
| 27 | I would only be doing it for you ! ’ |
| 28 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 29 | But he had stopped short of throwing them out , because then he would only be punishing himself . |
| 30 | He concluded by telling Scott that there was no need to hurry with the revised elevations as he would only be asking Parliament to vote sufficient for the foundations during the present session . |