Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] only [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone in Aberdeen she 'd thought about him night and day , had longed with all her heart to be in his arms just once more , had cried herself to sleep night after night only to have her dreams filled with visions of him . |
| 2 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 3 | Similarly , the thematic structure of the novel vaguely follows Propp 's paradigm : Armel takes Larissa into matrimony only to betray her ; Stavro , a gallant but naïve young man , ‘ saves ’ Larissa , begging her to marry him and go with him to Peru , or : ‘ The anti-hero anti-rescuing her from an anti-monster in an anti-romanzo ’ ( 149/727 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 5 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 6 | Husband and wife kept up their own conversation , turning to the elderly lady from time to time only to offer her another cup of tea or a cake . |