Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 2 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 3 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 5 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 6 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 7 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 8 | On the one hand , coins can give us the only information we have about some buildings , such as the vanished Roman Temple of Augustus and Livia between the Palatine and Capitol which was restored by Antoninus Pius in AD158-9 . |
| 9 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 10 | He 's the type that you 're gon na have to be firm with Lynn , tell him the only way he 's gon na accept it , is you tell him you just do n't love him |
| 11 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 12 | ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to . |
| 13 | Believe me the only way I 'd ever consider |
| 14 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 15 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 16 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 17 | And I 'll tell you the only reason I took the baby home was because Martin wanted her . |
| 18 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 19 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 20 | Bracing the right side gives you the only opportunity to use the left side to start the forward swing smoothly and efficiently . |
| 21 | He cleared the summerhouse so she would have a studio , and gave her the only key . |
| 22 | One of these aircraft was unique in that it was fitted with metallised wings and fuselage , making it the only metal Norseman in the world . |
| 23 | Adding the Intel boxes also gives DEC an esoteric sort of one-upmanship , making it the only supplier to support both the SIMD ( Maspar ) and MIMD ( Intel ) styles of MPP hardware , whose distinctions are a matter of religious controversy in some quarters of the MPP world . |
| 24 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 25 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 26 | They 're hell belt in , hell-bent in removing the last statutory protection against the poverty pay for workers in the U K. They will make us the only country in Europe without some minimum standards . |