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Example sentences for "only remained"

  • It only remained to nail on to the cross pieces five rows of 1 x 2 in the position shown.

  • The four pieces for the legs were dressed on all four sides, and it only remained to cut the angle at top and bottom.

  • It only remained to hinge the two parts together, but this operation proved to be no slight task.

  • As it was, however, she remained fixed in her position, and it only remained for us to get her off the best way we could.

  • As I had anticipated, our ropes were too short; and it only remained for us to get into the water, and haul the boat up by main force.

  • The schooner was soon completed, and it only remained to put her into the water.

  • It only remained to knock away the spur-shores and start the boat.

  • It only remained to run along the land for two or three miles, and to enter the haven of Snug Cove.

  • It only remained to secure his own safety and that of his companions.

  • There was no longer any room to doubt that the worst had happened, and it only remained to secure the safety of the expedition.

  • Having thus prepared the way for the larger enterprise, it only remained to find a plausible pretext for attacking the Kins.

  • After every means had been uselessly exhausted to persuade Marble from his design, it only remained to do all we could to make him comfortable and secure.

  • Then, it only remained to close the forescuttle and the cabin-doors, and to fasten them, to have us all prisoners below.

  • It only remained that it should be got on board, and the ship prepared for her voyage.

  • The capital being thus raised, it only remained to complete the organization of the Company by the choice of a Board of Directors, and to make a contract for the cable.

  • As the cable was now useless, it only remained to cut it from the stern of the Niagara.

  • On the present occasion it only remained to freshen the primings, and each piece was in a state for service.

  • A little further inquiry corroborated this fact, and it only remained to return to the canoe.

  • Even all the padlocks were removed, and it only remained to raise the heavy lid, again, to expose all the treasures of this long secreted hoard.

  • It only remained to caulk our upper works, and this occupied us but a day or two longer.

  • It only remained to open the magazine and shell-rooms, sand down the decks, and fill the requisite number of tubs with water.

  • I was now in possession of the data of my problem; it only remained for me to seek the solution.

  • With the pieces of cloth piled in one end against the brandy-cask, I was well defended in that quarter, and it only remained to close up the other end as I had done before.

  • It only remained to carry out the intention.

  • I say already accomplished, for it only remained to drag down the pieces of cloth contained in the upper box, and stow them away to the rear.

  • It only remained therefore to secure, for the present, admission into the kingdom, and so much of trade as Japanese jealousy could be brought to concede.

  • It was therefore deemed that the time for assault had come, and it only remained to determine the details.

  • It only remained to carry off to prison these honorable men, guilty of no crime but the defence of the laws of their country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cubic feet; entre les; iron hoop; musical director; only answered; only apparent; only come; only four; only from; only hope; only knew; only know; only known; only look; only meant; only necessary; only party; only reply; only said; only tell; only the; only thought; only two; only yesterday; things would; wished them