Example sentences of "[noun sg] only find " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 2 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |
| 3 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 4 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 5 | Cursing the Post Office and the weather in equal proportions , ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan slowly brought the aircraft around and with a considerable tailwind we headed back to Moose Jaw only to find the airport building deserted except for the night watchman huddled by his coal-oil heater with the mail-bags beside him . |
| 6 | The astonished porter disposes of this body as the previous one , but returns for his payment only to find , apparently , the corpse waiting for him again . |
| 7 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 8 | for every successful candidate there are bound to be at least two who were pipped at the post , who jumped the final fence only to find that the client had chosen one of their fellow front-runners : and these were the ones who — by and large — responded to the survey rather than the successful ones . |
| 9 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 10 | The study only found evidence of food reactions in 15 per cent of the patients , compared with 70 per cent in another major study . |
| 11 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 12 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 13 | He climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid only to find inscribed in black letters " a certain Buffard , 79 Rue Saint-Martin , wallpaper manufacturer . " |
| 14 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 15 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 16 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 17 | If you 've ever come home with newly bought make-up only to find that the colours do n't really suit you , take heart . |
| 18 | Having been warned off Channel 7 by Pannells , he contacted the Institute only to find that it could not approve the service . |
| 19 | If you do not , you may move into a home only to find , three months later , that the road outside your flat is being widened into a motorway , or an uninterrupted view over woodlands is to be rudely interrupted by the erection of a new housing estate . |
| 20 | How many times have hard-working men arrived home from work only to find that the house is upside down , furniture completely re-arranged and their favourite chair completely out of kilter with the best view of the TV ? |
| 21 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 22 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 23 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 24 | The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 25 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 26 | Participants could , for example , attempt to make their attitudes consonant with their recently acquired knowledge only to find themselves unable to break from their established pattern of behaviour ( Festinger , 1957 ) . |
| 27 | For example , a person may consent to his child 's staying the night with a friend only to find that his spouse has already allowed the child to do so . |
| 28 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 29 | You can spend an enormous amount of time checking out the possibilities for a particular audio-visual presentation only to find the organiser or speaker changes his mind . |
| 30 | More than one manager has devised a superb presentation only to find that the date was yesterday or the time half an hour earlier . |