Example sentences of "only [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Zanuck returned and found Preminger at his studio , he promptly fired him from directing Laura , allowing him only to remain on the film as its producer . |
| 2 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 3 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 4 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 5 | One has only to reflect on the enumeration of the varied properties of a state of full employment in the General Theory to realize that something is seriously wrong . |
| 6 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 7 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 8 | He and his wife toiled almost round the clock for seven years to make a success of their T-shirt design and print business — only to land on the scrapheap . |
| 9 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 10 | On several occasions he left the bathroom feeling weak and drained , only to stop on the dark landing at the onset of another wave of nausea . |