Example sentences of "only [verb] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 2 | The flashing tape is supplied in various widths , and only needs cutting to length with an old pair of scissors |
| 3 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 4 | McIllvanney had made the offer very dispassionately , but that businesslike approach only seemed to add to Ellen 's fury . |
| 5 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 6 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
| 7 | They only like to listen to rubbish . |
| 8 | There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’ |
| 9 | We are only beginning to come to terms with it . |
| 10 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 11 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 12 | Nick — you 've only managed to talk to Paul Simpson , I think everybody 's gone and hidden themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 14 | You only have to go to bed , when you go up there |
| 15 | If you were ever in doubt about the ‘ benefits ’ of the long-proposed Cardiff Bay barrage , you only need to go to Euston Station and look at one of the walls there . |
| 16 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |