Example sentences of "[subord] only [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment children leave the cosy nest of home , even if only to go to nursery school , parents lose the power to choose and control all their children 's friendships . |
| 2 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 3 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 4 | I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , Joe ; for the last time , why do n't you come home with me , if only to prove to Alice you 're still on the station . |
| 7 | He would have liked to have known what Louis planned , if only to know in whose cause Colonel Smith had sacrificed his life and how much information Smith had kept hidden . |