Sentence examples for branch only to from inspiring English sources

Mr. Zia emigrated from Afghanistan in the early 1970's, and found work at a Kansas branch, only to decide years later to open a new restaurant using his own fried-chicken recipe.

Like a child trying to reach a jar of cookies, I propped a kitchen chair in the flower bed and, with a mighty stretch, managed to grab a low-hanging branch, only to discover that the sturdy-looking bamboo cane on which I was relying for support had not had an easy winter.

"I can't believe it; what am I going to do?" said Sukhgin Der, 24, of Queens, who walked into the Astoria branch only to have a radio reporter hold up a microphone and ask how she felt about her school closing.

The story is told by one banking executive of how a Polish online bank opened its first branch, only to find an army of customers queuing up outside - as they had just been presented with their first opportunity to complain.

He says he was told one would arrive within 8-10 dand and when it didn't, he went into a branch, only to be told one hadn't been ordered.

Michael and Pam arrive at the Nashua branch, only to learn Holly is away on a human relations retreat.

In the Pacific Northwest, people tried to improve stream flow by removing bank side logs and branches only to realize that the debris provided important fish habitat.

On windy days, they swayed like a restless heart, and tiny birds flew over, screeching at one another, alighting neatly on the thin, supple branches only to take off again.

If you repeatedly extend olive branches only to have them chopped off, set on fire, and thrown back in your face- it's time to reassess your strategy of relentless optimism.

Low molecular weight but highly branched and water-soluble β- 1,6) glucan is covalently bound to β- 1,6) glucan, whish is brancovalentlyto a small extent.

The arthropod crown group (indicated by character G in Fig. 3) shares certain features not present in the stem group fossils, notably a reduced number of articles in the inner limb branch (only five to seven articles excluding the terminal claw versus eight in Leanchoilia) and more rod-like rather than flap-like outer limb branches.