Example sentences of "only [to-vb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 2 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 3 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 4 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 5 | The memory of this tragic story has been kept alive throughout the centuries and continues to be by the occasional appearance of The Green Lady — a ghost said to cross the road from Thorpe Hall only to disappear into the trees opposite . |
| 6 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 7 | ‘ Only to walk into an ambush ! ’ |
| 8 | Bejewelled , she sat through dinner-parties , often drowsy before the soup course was through , longing only to escape into sleep . |
| 9 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 10 | She left his office quietly , too raw to make a scene and attract attention , wanting only to crawl into a corner and hide . |
| 11 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 12 | The illusion was only to precipitate into a historical fact — the proletariat 's birth and growth — history 's total meaning , to believe that history itself organized its own recovery , that the proletariat 's power would be its own suppression , the negation of the negation . |
| 13 | This also cleared , only to develop into bronchitis , which slowed down my activities considerably . |
| 14 | However good its intentions , a revenue-starved government is one with its hands tied firmly behind its back , able only to gaze into the whirlpool of poverty in which most of its country 's people flounder . |