Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] only [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Said I should only be pretending . |
| 2 | I 'll only be gone for half an hour or so , she reassured herself : plenty of time to finish it all when I get back . |
| 3 | I 'll only be sitting in the coffee shop till five past five anyway like so |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | It 's a privilege ; I 'd say more , but I would only be cut for the usual reason , lack of |
| 7 | I would only be doing it for you ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think so , thank you , and of course I shall only be staying the one night , ’ she said very firmly . |
| 9 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 10 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 11 | Sorry I can only be done , I said , mm , would I understand , and I said yes . |
| 12 | Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ . |
| 13 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 14 | Nothing serious today , you should only be flying up your own arse ! |
| 15 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 16 | If you have any queries about reception or frequency please ring our special radio Helpline on 0345 010313 during office hours — you 'll only be charged at the local rate . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | So you 'll only be letting yourself down . |
| 19 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 20 | I had n't known she did , but apparently she could only be persuaded when she was in her cups , which was a rare occurrence . |
| 21 | Rosemary apparently has to cope with her husband 's anxiety that she could only be cured by becoming more ‘ assertive ’ . |
| 22 | The defendant counterclaimed that as a residential occupier she was protected by section 3 of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 so that she could only be evicted by means of execution of a warrant of possession , and she sought damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Housing Act 1988 .. |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 26 | Communication between the front of the vehicle and the back was via a small hatch , but because of the noise of the engine you could only be heard by putting your face close to the hatch and yelling . |
| 27 | This was mostly a matter of scale ; Pete 's feeling was that you could n't own such a place , you could only be owned by it . |
| 28 | She said she thought she would only be frisked but was told to strip . |
| 29 | It had to be a success — she knew she would only be allowed one failure . |
| 30 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |