Sentence examples for been only to from inspiring English sources

His intention appears to have been only to stay for a time, but he never returned to Rome.

The new president's term has scarcely begun, and almost all his official visits lie ahead of him; previously, he'd been only to Canada.

I didn't quite know what to expect, having been only to Welsh funerals where the choir sings Cwm Rhondda and the readings are heavily laced with foreboding.

Judge Sandvik acknowledged that he had not looked into the details of Mr. Holisky's assault case, arguing that his job had been only to review what the prosecutor had presented to him.

But it would be wrong to suppose, as that view does, that Bill Clinton's effect on the American scene has been only to make the White House a grubbier place and politics more dishonest.

Instead, his impetus has been only to "make things better"; for his parents, whose emigration had propelled them into reduced circumstances and fragile dependence on a shaky network of exiles, and for his brother Freddy, the preferred son whose descent from musical genius into mental breakdown had completed the family's wreckage.

But that was only to be expected.

That was only to be expected.

It was only to be expected.

The grief was only to be expected.

Such ambivalence is only to be expected.