Example sentences of "only [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 2 | After rounding the last mark incorrectly , they returned , losing places in the process , only to catch a submerged dustbin on their keel . |
| 3 | I forgot I 'd brought you ! ’ she exclaimed as the store detective pushed Miranda into her mother 's sleek legs , only to provoke a little skipping step to the side . |
| 4 | Loans were felt only to provide a short-term solution while grants were inadequate or not available to those in need . |
| 5 | The inability to convey accurate figures limits the use of pictograms except where we wish only to provide a general impression of a set of figures and where detail is not important . |
| 6 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 7 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 8 | Undaunted , Franco next approached President Roosevelt , only to receive a similar rebuff . |
| 9 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 10 | Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism ! |
| 11 | This inspired a mini revival by the Quakers and John Weldon hit the post at the other end , with Peter Lentinue following up only to put a simple chance wide of the post . |
| 12 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 13 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 14 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 15 | They painted a picture of Mr X as a really bright cookie — bright enough not only to run a crooked merchant bank , but to pull the wool over the eyes of the psychologists . |
| 16 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 17 | If he wanted her , even if it was only to satiate a temporary need , even if she was only a substitute for the woman he really wanted , then she would oblige , because he had reduced her will-power to nothing . |
| 18 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 19 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 20 | He hardly knew the people in his own house , only to exchange a casual greeting if he met them going out or coming in . |
| 21 | Odd individuals kept swimming away , only to return a short while later . |
| 22 | Then Valdeir shrugged through David Batty 's desperate lunge and took a return pass from Careca only to produce a weak shot . |
| 23 | My dad never talked about appearance much , only to make a clinical/medical-type comment . |
| 24 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |