Example sentences of "[pron] be only [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I listen to my radio I am only marking time . |
| 2 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 3 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 4 | Do n't forget you 're only putting , you 're only part time , you 're pushing to do your work hard |
| 5 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 6 | I do n't know , depends what you want to do , I can prepare it now actually there 's only Sally left is ? , is it only you left Sal ? |
| 7 | Rachaela said , ‘ There 's only carton milk . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah well , there was n't many shops there really dear , there were just the er fishmongers and greengrocers and the butchers and the , we used to have to go there to get , to queue up , you had to queue because there was no , not many shops to be there you see to serve you , it 's altered a lot now , there 's a lot more shops now and the doctors I used to have to queue right out the gate , the doctors a big long queue , there was only Dr surgery and then we had another doctor came that started down at erm the bottom of erm Harlow near where , where do they call that ? |
| 9 | There was only booking Amnesty ? |
| 10 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 11 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 12 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 13 | It 's only surface calm . |
| 14 | Yes , it 's only half term . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid I think it 's only junk mail , but it 's addressed to you . ’ |
| 16 | Oh it 's only Friday afternoon , I was waiting for Doris to phone me were n't I ? |
| 17 | but there again it 's only hand feed , you 've , you got to have a , a machine that can feed on to take this tubing |
| 18 | Well th if it 's only , if it 's only term assurance there 's no units involved anyway . |
| 19 | It 's only breast milk it 's like that , if they have bottles , bottled milk it 's more solid from the beginning , but it 's not nice , this is n't bad , messy , but it 's not smelly . |
| 20 | It 's only Monday morning too ! |
| 21 | It 's only Lucozade dear . |
| 22 | it 's only frame collapse . |
| 23 | Well it 's only Wednesday love . |
| 24 | What are they now ? it 's only paper money , what 's it matter ? |
| 25 | Not all commercials have music , but most do , even if it is only background music bought from a library of such material . |
| 26 | > It is only Apolline art that seeks to replace suffering by beauty . |
| 27 | The second point which I would make is that despite having had many months indeed years , to come to a view , erm it is only Selby District Council who have stepped forward and said , basically that they would be prepared to accommodate the new settlement . |
| 28 | It was only tomato sauce , after all ! |
| 29 | Because you see that surface water , it was only surface water , because when that boat was drifting there was an awful lot of movement . |
| 30 | It was only Operation Eagle that saved him and his men from the penal unit they were serving in . ’ |