Example sentences of "[verb] only [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 2 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 3 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 4 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 5 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 6 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 7 | One has only to look around to see Labour government in action in London . |
| 8 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
| 9 | The room suddenly wavered , melting and reforming only to melt again . |
| 10 | She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could . |
| 11 | I 'd never be so desperate for you , Travis McKenna , that I 'd stoop so low ! ’ she cried and pushed herself to her feet , wanting only to get out of there . |
| 12 | The landlord 's dumpy wife began trotting about , finding a scrubbing brush and a length of rag for a towel , pausing only to say sharply : ‘ Get thee out then ! |
| 13 | Vendelin Gajdusek flicked one last look at her , leaving her with no idea whether he approved or disapproved , and , pausing only to pick up the dog 's lead , he went to the kitchen door with her . |
| 14 | Pausing only to straighten out the stripes on his drip-dry polyester-mix Marks & Spencer executive shirt , Brian will respond with a jaunty , ‘ Proceed ! ’ |
| 15 | We must make sure he has not recoiled only to spring out more strongly . |
| 16 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
| 17 | This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau . |
| 18 | In the Edinburgh system , all word possibilities are stored on the word graph and higher level knowledge is used only to filter out possibilities , rather than to dictate the set of possibilities . |
| 19 | The 22nd meeting of the seventh standing committee of the National People 's Congress ( legislature ) on Oct. 25 was expected to approve a proposal that China accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , following Premier Li Peng 's announcement in August of China 's acceptance of the treaty ; however Japan 's Kyodo News Service reported on Oct. 31 that it was agreed only to hold further discussions [ see also p. 38340 ] . |
| 20 | A typical pattern in psychosomatic illness is for the disease to fluctuate with periods when the symptoms disappear only to return again at a later date . |
| 21 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 22 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 23 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 24 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 25 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 26 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 27 | It will serve only to complicate further an already very difficult situation . |
| 28 | ‘ Vulcan is trained only to lash out at someone who threatens him . ’ |
| 29 | The group that was introduced to the sounds of individual letters was better at spelling than the group trained only to pick out sounds in words . |
| 30 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |