Example sentences of "[pron] only [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 2 | I only hope to God she 's not in too much pain . |
| 3 | I only hope to God one of them is . ’ |
| 4 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I only go to small shops now . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I only listen to the sport . |
| 7 | Theda asked , adding , ‘ I only wish to be adequately prepared if she should question me . ’ |
| 8 | And I only said to Joe yesterday |
| 9 | Ah , I only said to Chris the other day , I thought god I have n't seen Trevor for ages , I honestly did and I , I did n't think you know , anything wrong with him . |
| 10 | I only count to four , then I move in close and stick the barrel of the gun in his throat . |
| 11 | and then previously I worked at neighbourhood office , and I only came to when it had be d been declared a clearance area , |
| 12 | ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four . |
| 13 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 14 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 15 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 16 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 17 | I only want to be taught . |
| 18 | so I only have to once . |
| 19 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 20 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 21 | ‘ We have strong reservations , ’ it says in its response to the document , ‘ about the usefulness of information contained in accounts which only relate to the activity of a branch in an economic entity . |
| 22 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 23 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 24 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 25 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 26 | Sometimes violence took place , which only added to an already bitter situation . |
| 27 | The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace . |
| 28 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 29 | ( i ) The facts of the case must come within the section , which only applies to , the " faulty execution of … construction , maintenance or repair … |
| 30 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |