Example sentences of "only [vb past] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | McIllvanney had made the offer very dispassionately , but that businesslike approach only seemed to add to Ellen 's fury . |
| 2 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 3 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 4 | ‘ He only wanted to go to the out-patients . |
| 5 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |