Sentence examples for only to pick from inspiring English sources

He needed only to pick up some more communications equipment.

He tails off only to pick up again.

She hangs up, only to pick her phone up again.

But woe betide those who go to Europe only to pick fights at foreign football stadiums.

In the mid-eighties, Iran traded hostages for military equipment, only to pick up more hostages after three were released.

Indulging heresy, as Mr. Kaplan points out, threatened not only to pick their pockets but also to endanger their souls.

Kallis flays the leather of the ball only to pick out cover and get no runs in return.

The N.F.L. had only to pick up the tab for the performers' getting to and staying in New Orleans.

Only to pick up his guitar and sing the first few lines of "Rape Me" as the big dogs could only look on horrified.

At times the silent Listener raps on the table, as if he can bear no more, and the Reader pauses, only to pick up the tale again.

Leonardo took the resulting free-kick with such precision that Victory keeper Lawrence Thomas moved only to pick the ball out of his net.