Example sentences of "[verb] only [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund . |
| 2 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 3 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 4 | If we 'd only stuck to Perrier … |
| 5 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 6 | The animal had sniffed from the street what its owner had only begun to nose as he climbed the stairs , whistling for his hound between curses : the rotting tissue at the top . |
| 7 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 8 | He had only gone to Karlovy Vary to deliver a package — and look at the time , nearly four o'clock ! |
| 9 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 10 | This had only added to Brian 's sense of guilt , as if he had been prying , probing into something personal that was not his business . |
| 11 | After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation . |
| 12 | With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city . |
| 13 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 14 | So far I have only referred to gardens , perhaps even inferring gardens of a reasonable size . |