Example sentences of "[was/were] only [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 2 | Had Becky got there before him , he wondered , even if she were only living in digs ? |
| 3 | The Justice Police had sealed off the streets and were only allowing in members of parliament who agreed to be body-searched . |
| 4 | Oh , were were only talking about complaints examiner I think |
| 5 | I was only popping over chemist to get a bloody |
| 6 | P.S. I assume Tertje was only referring to players that have *left* Leeds in his time as a supporter when naming Cuntona as the most important person to have filled a Leeds shirt . |
| 7 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 8 | I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected . |
| 9 | Sadly , the beautiful old yacht Honey Bee was only going to Cruibh Haven but they keenly solicited around the basin on my behalf . |
| 10 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 11 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 12 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 13 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 14 | Between 1970 and 1980 owner occupancy was only declining in Fineview , house prices were increasing throughout the area and the elderly population was increasing above the average rate in only half the neighbourhoods . |