Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] only [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted only to study the frieze . |
| 2 | She had only to watch the porter 's moves next day to learn the times when he visited his charge , and espy where the two keys of the penal cells hung side by side in the gatehouse . |
| 3 | She had only to make the decision . |
| 4 | She had only to follow the road now . |
| 5 | In so far as the reforms accelerated the growth of capitalism and differentiation between employer and employee among the peasantry , they served only to intensify the misery and oppression of the poorer peasants , to advance the struggle between rich and poor peasants . |
| 6 | Pretending that they desired only to rid the country of a tyrant , on 21 February 1437 they burst into the Blackfriars monastery in Perth in spite of the attempt by Catherine Douglas , one of the queen 's attendants , to bar the door by using her arm as a bolt , earning herself the name of Kate-Bar-the-Door . |
| 7 | He decided only to answer the question which he was asked . |
| 8 | He had only to recall the inevitability of their first coming together , her passionate , uncomplicated , animal gusto in their lovemaking to know that the thought was paranoid . |
| 9 | For he halted only to slam the door fast behind him , then , having imprisoned her in her room , he was again coming after her . |
| 10 | The farmer 's defence was that he intended only to wound the thief , and thought he was entitled to do so . |