Sentence examples for merely there from inspiring English sources

(Everyone else is merely there for the ride).

He said merely there was "no blank cheque" for HS2 over £50bn.

But the game, as with so much in this play, seems merely there to illuminate the distance between these ordinary people grappling with grief.

"Religion was merely there," the narrator of Jim Harrison's novel "The Great Leader" says, "like cod liver oil, taxes, the beginning of school".

From that foundation, a historical consciousness became almost impossible and one's own privileges invisible, merely there, even while others' disadvantages could be cast as social problems.

Once again, Romania have a contender in Otelul Galati, but they are merely there to make up the numbers so Uefa can mask the early stages.

That's not to say at all that there is anything untoward going on, merely that there are people out there who thought the odds looked appealing.

Cameron merely stands there, unblinking, looking at you.

I was merely standing there and the reaction was to stick my arm out.

Owning a user's daily financial transactions unlocks vast potential and engagement beyond merely being there when that person needs a ride.

However, the dispute is not merely verbal: there is no prima facie reason to think that there are no genuinely unitary properties, goods or principles.