Example sentences of "only [verb] to [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Since the Judicature Act , just as much as before it , if A sells the property to C , who knows nothing of the trust , and transfers the legal ownership to him , B's rights to the property are destroyed ; he can only look to A for compensation for the breach of trust .
2 The DTI consider that although the title of the Directive applies to all contracts involving consumers , the recitals and indeed parts of the text , imply that it can only apply to contracts for the supply of goods and services .
3 For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) .
4 ‘ I only went to school for two years , ’ says Maxima Flores , forty-year-old mother of four .
5 You only go to prison for stealing and things like that . ’
6 Ride along with it as philosophically as you can , and try not to take your own hurt feelings or sense of irritation out on your mother-in-law , as this will only lead to unhappiness for you all .
7 These rules only apply to distraints for rent .
8 A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) .
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