Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we had a proper argument about this , of course he was a grown up man , I were only a kid you know . |
| 2 | She had said , ‘ Well , I was only a child in the sixties , so I 've got to have my sixties now . ’ |
| 3 | But I was only a child , so I just stood and watched him out of sight and turned reluctantly to deliver his message . |
| 4 | I was only a child , it 's not surprising I was a nuisance . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was only a child then , ’ said Camille , ‘ and it was only a joke . ’ |
| 6 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |
| 7 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 8 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 9 | This was Eilean na Roin , and I was only a passer-by . |
| 10 | I was only a kid . |
| 11 | I had this plane a a low four nine engine and I was only a kid . |
| 12 | Kept , and I did n't have any chocolate , well I was only a kid , but |
| 13 | I was only a kid when I |
| 14 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 15 | Oh , yes , I was only a girl , and he was only a boy — but when my mother told me we would n't be coming back , and that I 'd very soon forget him , I believed her . ’ |
| 16 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 17 | but I was only a gingerbread woman |
| 18 | They took no notice of me ; they were creatures of the night , the air and the ocean , and I was only a piece of the land , meaningless , to be flown round like a boulder or a stump of wood . |
| 19 | No I , I was only a baby then , I would n't remember that |
| 20 | I was only a baby |
| 21 | Very humbly I said how grateful I was , since I was only a surgeon . |
| 22 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 23 | ‘ I was only a messenger but it was the closest job to actually being in films that I could get , ’ he told Expression magazine . |
| 24 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 25 | But er it was only u until I left the school cos I was only a matter of eight when I left that school so er I was n't in a it was n't in any progressive sort of style then I mean we wer it was more rudiments of education that we were taught and er |
| 26 | He was a strong man , and I was only a woman . |
| 27 | I was only a refugee at present . |
| 28 | I was only a lad . |
| 29 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 30 | I was only the caddie , so I sneaked out . |