Example sentences of "[vb past] only for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 2 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 3 | Jake checked only for an instant . |
| 4 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 5 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 6 | Insufficient data on survival ( patients admitted only for the management of the acute bleeding ) or incomplete medical records excluded seven patients ; 12 other patients were not studied because of prehepatic portal hypertension ( four ) , associated hepatocellular carcinoma or other neoplasms ( seven ) , or previous shunting ( one ) . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Description of Use or in any restriction of driving to specified persons in this Policy the indemnity to the Policyholder in connection with any motor car described in the Schedule shall operate while such motor car is in the custody or control of a member of the Motor Trade and used only for the purpose of its overhaul upkeep or repair . |
| 8 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 9 | The baptistery was , in early Christian times , used only for the sacrament of baptism . |
| 10 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 11 | Jasper went , was gone it seemed only for a minute , came back to say that they would be welcome . |
| 12 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 13 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 14 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 15 | In one place Shakespeare stretches the hypocrite 's resourcefulness to the limits , when an aside about the wisdom of the young Prince meant only for the audience — ‘ So wise , so young , they say do never live long ’ — is overheard by the Prince himself — ‘ What say you uncle ? ’ — forcing Richard to improvise brilliantly : But this superiority of wit places the audience in any uneasy position : if we laugh with the deceiver we could share his dehumanizing of the dupe . |
| 16 | The queen-dowager hesitated only for a moment . |
| 17 | He hesitated only for a moment before thrusting his bayonet down the middle of the German 's mouth . |
| 18 | I hesitated only for a moment as I approached the shop , then walked straight in . |
| 19 | As the band left the stage ( she appeared only for the encore ) they could n't find her and panicked , thinking she 'd hated the show and gone home . |
| 20 | The columns for support and supply had been alerted long ago , the clansmen waited only for the signal , and his great seal on the writs his messengers carried would bring them out to join him like bees from a hive disturbed . |
| 21 | He halted only for a second , enough to narrow his eyes and purse his lips into a look of utter disgust , as though a dog 's turd had grown legs and scurried on to his carpet . |
| 22 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 23 | He wanted only for the light to be put out , he waited only for darkness and sleep . |
| 24 | By the end of the Middle Ages there were various categories of copyholder , the best placed being those who held by inheritance with the entry fine to the land being fixed , while the less fortunate held for a term of life , with an uncertain entry fine to be paid by the successor , or even , although this was unusual , held only for a term of years ( 79 , p.47 ; 82 , pp.60–2 ) . |
| 25 | It was normal practice for Rome to establish buffer states on her frontiers in the form of client kingdoms , an arrangement which held only for the lifetime of the chosen ruler . |
| 26 | She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time . |