Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was n't only to toil in the cotton fields that negros were stolen from Africa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | CATHERINE If I did , it was probably only to keep you in order . |
| 5 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 6 | 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 . |