Example sentences of "[noun prp] only for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students on the part-time course will work from home , visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination . |
| 2 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 3 | She would take home something special and beautiful so that she would not remember the Côte d'Azur only for the bad things . |
| 4 | The turning point came in the 75th minute when McGrath brought down Walsh only for the resulting penalty by Lineker to be saved easily by Spink . |
| 5 | DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again . |
| 6 | I wondered , since my mother was principally concerned for my health , and Lili only for my dress , why it was that I had felt secure until my mother arrived . |
| 7 | An American legal source said : ‘ Fans are going to have to show they are going to the US only for the soccer matches and provide evidence of a steady history of employment , and that they can support themselves while in the States . ’ |
| 8 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 9 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |