Example sentences of "[was/were] only [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 2 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that hardly any left the building in those weeks of May without murmuring apologetically that they were only leaving in order to get some baking done at home ! |
| 4 | Because erm even when radio came er there was only sort of chamber music on the radio you know . |
| 5 | I was only average at school . |
| 6 | Poor Elsie had died of the whooping cough just after Harry had gone to America , so now there was only Edna at home in the daytime to help her mother . |