Example sentences of "he only [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This life history , which extends to 311 pages , deals mainly with the writer 's early life in Poland and his travels before coming to America ; in fact he only goes to America 17 pages from the end , at the age of 27 . |
| 2 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 3 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 4 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 5 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |