Example sentences of "only go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 At the moment everybody is eagerly awaiting Crest 's Late Night Show from Crest ( of course ! ) , a group which has pushed C64 to its ultimate limits , only to go even further in their next demo !
2 I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with .
3 If the movement only goes upwards it usually means pride or arrogance .
4 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
5 The full extension of the slide only goes as far down as C , but an ‘ E slide ’ gives the low B natural ; the B flat is taken as a ‘ pedal note ’ in the first position of the B flat instrument and the rest of the pedal notes are available down to E , the bottom open string of the string bass .
6 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
7 But it only goes so far .
8 If one thought of the head only going forward , and not upward , it would invariably drop downwards , causing an increase of muscular tension in the neck area .
9 ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake !
10 Cos our Lianne said to me on Thursday mother I 'm only going away for week .
11 Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ?
12 We 're only going home .
13 ‘ We are seeing British scientists not only going abroad but also spending far too much time in this country chasing funds , ’ Sharp said .
14 He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons .
15 erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there .
16 He said , well I only live next door you know in a , in a village school quite obviously they all lived nearby and he was only gone about two or three minutes and he came back and once again , the young lady will know , but erm men might not know , I know , skirt hangers , you know skirt hangers , they 're on springs are n't they ?
17 Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ?
18 Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer .
19 ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him .
20 I only went upstairs to get sort of washed and dressed , after the weekend , you have nobody around and er , oh eh , it started bleeding .
21 I used to , no I only went away on er , we only went to Rotterdam once , that 's all .
22 ‘ I really only went today because of you .
23 ‘ You only went once ? ’
24 And can you say if you only went once ?
25 I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt .
26 ‘ I only went once ( Chelsea , the MP 's lot ) , got frozen stiff and remember wondering what on earth I was doing there . ’
27 The railway only went as far as Achnasheen in 1876 .
28 Jamie Champkin , defending , said Manning was travelling at between 70 and 80mph on the A40 near Curbridge , Oxon , and only went faster when an unmarked police car began gaining on him .
29 ‘ She only went yesterday , Billy .
30 Rumour 'as it that Maitland only went ter the fights ter get all the evidence 'e could .
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