Sentence examples for were only to from inspiring English sources

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In the beginning, there were only to have been 13.

They were only to protect his business, he told the soldiers.

Older, less-known women writers were only to be found in tatty library editions.

The reporter's recent visits were only to Family Courts in the five boroughs.

The president visited his stand at the fair, but the British sales were only to a few libraries.

All these horrors, and more, were only to be avoided by the utterance of the requisite spells.

Mine, I suppose, were only to be "overcome" and I hadn't the slightest desire to molest myself that way.

When they referred to the boss, Mr. Henoch said, mobsters were only to point to their ears.

Mr. Gore had told investigators that he thought his White House telephone calls were only to raise soft-money donations.

Once, orchids were only to be found cosied up in the stove houses of Victorian plant collectors.

It cost a dollar to cast each vote, and while attendees could vote as many times as they liked, men were only to vote for women and women were only to vote for men.

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