Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know erm possibly it is something to do with policy , actually that was n't what I was the main thing I was ringing about . |
| 2 | Yours was the only group I ever taught maths — a stop-gap teacher for a year . |
| 3 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 4 | But you , Shannon Lea — you are the only woman I 've ever loved , the only one I ever will love . |
| 5 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me come with you wherever you go , please , Miss Emily , you are the only family I 've ever known , I wo n't need paying , just my keep , I can still work hard , mind . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , that 's all right , since you 're the only man I 've ever wanted to be possessed by . |
| 8 | You 're the only person I can talk to . |
| 9 | You 're the only brother I have . ’ |
| 10 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 11 | She 's the only person I 've seen die really horribly . |
| 12 | But when I go out she 's the only thing I talk about , she 's more important . |
| 13 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 14 | But then Miss see could n't move out of my sight , she was the only friend I had amongst all these strangers . |
| 15 | A point emphasized by her former form captain , Delissa Needham : ‘ She was the only girl I knew whose parents were divorced . |
| 16 | We 're the only company I know that puts issues like acid rain , waste and pollution as shop-window issues to educate our customers . |
| 17 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the only oracle I 've ever read that meant anything to me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She says it 's the only life I know , and I might want to join just because of that . |
| 20 | ‘ And it 's the only day I 've got . |
| 21 | it 's the only date I did remember from school |
| 22 | I know lots of people ca n't understand that , one of which is my accountant , but I feel I must put something back , it 's the only way I can feel comfortable about all the money I 've made . ’ |
| 23 | But it 's the only way I know how to sing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Just talking to myself , it 's the only way I can get any sensible conversation round here . ’ |
| 25 | I like to know the farmers and their landscape — it 's the only way I can paint Wales . ’ |
| 26 | " It 's the only way I know . " |
| 27 | It 's the only way I can think of to explain the coincidences in the tales you 've told me . |
| 28 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 29 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said at last , ‘ I 'll go along with this crazy scheme — only because it 's the only way I can hope to convince you that you 're wrong , totally wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's the only way I 'd consider . |