Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm here only to collect my car . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me , Chief Inspector , I 've got a one-track mind and I 'm here only to locate the man called Colt , the Englishman who murdered an Agency man in Athens . ’ , |
| 3 | Searching is limited to the use of the printed index , which is usually only to plant names . |
| 4 | As he had lived alone before his stroke , he had to hire 24-hour nursing help , and a nurse accompanied him whenever he went out , which was initially only to attend for rehabilitation care . |
| 5 | We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it . |
| 6 | That it should be worked out fairly is as important for the police as for the protesters since the police in their non-public order role , for example in the normal course of investigating and detecting crime , require the cooperation and help of people similar to those whose freedoms to protest they are not only to control but to control fairly . |
| 7 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 8 | Indeed , where studies have provided this information , it is typically only to note that the majority of the sample were white ( for example , Wilson , 1987 ; Graham , 1987b ) . |
| 9 | It was n't only to toil in the cotton fields that negros were stolen from Africa . |
| 10 | It was not only to meet the argument of demographic decline if the trade stopped but to avoid the embarrassingly radical charge that they wanted rapid emancipation that antislavery reformers argued the consequence of abolition would be virtually automatic improvement in the conditions of slaves . |
| 11 | CATHERINE If I did , it was probably only to keep you in order . |
| 12 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 13 | A tiny voice of reason in her mind kept trying to convince her he was there only to bring her some new information about the court case , but her ridiculous heart refused to listen , all but taking wings within her as she sang . |