Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 2 | They arrived for the performance only to find the tape recorder would not work . |
| 3 | After three doses , she slept deeply , waking intermittently during the night only to urinate . |
| 4 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 5 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |
| 6 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 7 | Many people leap out of bed and charge about the ward on their first day after the operation only to collapse in a heap the day after that . |
| 8 | Many inside of Sun at the grass roots level have not agreed with that corporate gospel , hence the repeated attempts to wheel one out the door only to see those plans aborted by management and marketing . |
| 9 | My female Ps. lombardoi keeps developing a sort of round white patch on the top of her mouth which turns black after a week only to turn white again . |
| 10 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 11 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 12 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |
| 13 | We went round the corner out of the way only to find the lads from the nailery there . |
| 14 | At best we are trapped in a modern version of the ancient myth of Sisyphus : condemned forever to roll the electoral stone to the top of the hill only to see it roll back down again . |
| 15 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 16 | Lee Horan stood in the centre of the small bedroom and fastened his tie , leaning towards the mirror only to check the end result . |
| 17 | This peculiar outburst was entirely in character for de Gaulle , who could be serenely optimistic in the heat of a crisis only to become sceptical and disillusioned , even depressed , when the crisis was over . |
| 18 | Norwich pushed forward in search of an equaliser only to concede the classic breakaway goal after Rocastle had driven forward from midfield and released the perfect ball which enabled Wright to draw Walton before netting . |
| 19 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 20 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 21 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 22 | A hare appeared on the opposite verge , quivered for a second , then ran swiftly up the road only to leap sideways out of the path of the approaching French infantry . |
| 23 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 24 | In this paradise , our man saunters along the road only to obstruct the rush of business . |
| 25 | For example , a person may consent to his child 's staying the night with a friend only to find that his spouse has already allowed the child to do so . |
| 26 | Then she remembered ; the car , the box , the head , she sat up with a start only to clatter back down again . |
| 27 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 28 | If you do not , you may move into a home only to find , three months later , that the road outside your flat is being widened into a motorway , or an uninterrupted view over woodlands is to be rudely interrupted by the erection of a new housing estate . |
| 29 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 30 | Instead , the vendor will normally seek undertakings from the purchaser only to operate the business in the same or a similar manner to the way it was operated before the sale . |