Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 2 | The meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 had increased his confidence not only vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire but also in respect of the West , for Austria and Russia ( and subsequently Prussia ) had agreed not only to maintain the integrity of the Sultan 's possessions , but also to guarantee each other 's Polish territories and to assist any established regime which found itself threatened by insurgents . |
| 3 | Others had scrambled across the field , dodging shellbursts , and had taken off only to forget where they were supposed to be going . |
| 4 | Miliutin had begun not only to reduce expenditure , but also to introduce military personnel to the spirit of post-emancipation society . |
| 5 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |