Example sentences of "[vb past] only for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 2 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The baptistery was , in early Christian times , used only for the sacrament of baptism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He wanted only for the light to be put out , he waited only for darkness and sleep . |
| 12 | 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 . |