Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the only child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the only child of elderly parents and I suppose when I was young they were over-protective and old-fashioned . |
| 2 | I am the only child . ’ |
| 3 | As I was the only child , the animals were my playmates . |
| 4 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 5 | She was the only child in her town who had three medals . |
| 6 | She remembered when she was the only child at home , playing with her dolls on the rag rug before the fire and listening to the purring of the kettle on the hob , her mother singing as she worked in the back kitchen , waiting for the others to come home . |
| 7 | She was the only child , you see — he 'd no son — and she married Mr. Carolan and moved in high society . |
| 8 | He was the only child of a rich , upper-class and cultivated Jewish family , distantly related to the Samuels , Lyons , Glucksteins . |
| 9 | He was the only child of an Asian couple who were living with the father 's parents . |
| 10 | He was the only child . |
| 11 | He was the only child of Ernest Augustus ( fifth son of George III ) , first Duke of Cumberland , and his wife Friederike Caroline Sophia Alexandrina of Mecklenburg . |
| 12 | He was the only child . |