Example sentences of "he be only a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 2 | He were only a young boy , seventeen year old . |
| 3 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 4 | The cold-bloodedness of this experiment becomes apparent when we discover that chess was not one of Polgar 's great interests ; even now he is only a mediocre player . |
| 5 | Johnny Giles commentating on the game expressed the view , expressed by someone on the list recently , that he is only a fair weather player . |
| 6 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 7 | She cried out ‘ Do n't shoot my son , shoot me instead … he 's only a wee boy . ’ |
| 8 | He 's only a junior officer , so he is n't wired . |
| 9 | He 's only a young lad and all , he |
| 10 | Dibber , he 's only a part-time volunteer , says |
| 11 | He 's only a little boy . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's only a little man , ’ said Georgiades , eyeing the glass again . |
| 13 | He 's only a fucking newsreader . |
| 14 | You know , I mean he 's only a single bloke . |
| 15 | He 's only a seven month old pup and the thieves probably had an easy time luring him away . |
| 16 | I was n't scared of him , he was only a skinny little thing ; I suppose I must 've loved him . |
| 17 | He even beat the priest here when he was only a young clerk . ’ |
| 18 | It was Raymond and he was only a wee boy . |
| 19 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 20 | He was only a rotten little Teddy-boy . ’ |
| 21 | I mean he was only a tiny was n't he ? |
| 22 | It is easy to understand and sympathize with his predicament , but he was only a major commanding a very small force . |
| 23 | He was only a little 'un , but he got one weight over his head all right . |
| 24 | When I first came here with Mister Johnny — he was only a little lad then and I was n't much older — the Gotobeds still had their money and they kept house in style . |
| 25 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
| 26 | He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve , who had promised to help him settle in . |
| 27 | He was only a voluntary patient , he supposed , and could leave at any time . |
| 28 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 29 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 30 | Dr Enevoldson said the more records of blood and bone marrow types she has , the more chance of helping patients like the England and Spurs striker 's baby son , who was taken ill with a form of leukaemia when he was only a few months old . |