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

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1 Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ?
2 First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header .
3 I met him properly only once .
4 Last night the feeling at Westminster was that Mellor resembled him in only one respect — he may be gone for some time , too .
5 He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities .
6 Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph .
7 The 10,000 metres of film recording Hitler at the grandiose military parade and celebrations for his fiftieth birthday in April 1939 consciously sought to portray him not only as a ‘ statesman ’ , but also as ‘ the future military leader , taking muster of his armed forces ’ .
8 I will paint for him not only the visible universe , but all that he can conceive of nature 's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom .
9 The King placed before him not only works of Wagenseil , but those of [ Johann Christian ] Bach , Abel and Handel and he played off everything prima vista …
10 His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands .
11 This man from Mountain Ash pointed him not only towards the theatre but to his own Olympus of ambition — the University of Oxford of which , in those days , a miner 's son could not even afford to dream .
12 Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest .
13 It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties .
14 Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event .
15 Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one .
16 Caesar found in him not only valuable factual information about places and institutions , but an encouraging analysis of the weakness of Celtic society .
17 All evening she 'd been aware of him not only as the uncle of the delinquent who had abducted Suzie , but also on a separate level she had no wish to analyse .
18 William of Normandy , in his mid-twenties , was already married to Matilda , the daughter of Baldwin of Flanders , flouting Pope Leo 's injunction , linking him not only to Lille and Bruges and Ghent , but to Tostig , the son of Earl Godwin who had married Judith of Flanders , Matilda 's aunt .
19 The drawing reminded him not only of Rosa Ponselle 's photograph , but also the wicked queen in Snow White .
20 She had glimpsed him afar only a moment or so ago .
21 ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so .
22 She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling .
23 He not only added a greater dimension through his excellent , exciting tennis , but also through his personality .
24 He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work .
25 He was doubtless selected because he not only commands a vast classical repertoire , essential for one of the world 's great orchestras , but has also worked hard to popularise modern music .
26 A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years .
27 A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years .
28 He not only transforms sad friend , but maintains my reputation for being a resourceful problem solver .
29 He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall .
30 He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments .
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