Example sentences of "[was/were] the only boy " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 2 | And I were the only boy , |
| 3 | Now the nurse from the clinic was visiting the school again , and Frankie was the only boy in his class who had failed to return his slip of paper duly signed by a parent or guardian . |
| 4 | Jazz was looking very distinguished these days and was the only boy Nutty could remotely think of fancying . |
| 5 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 6 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 7 | " If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy , nothing else would matter in the whole wide world , " my mother would sing inappropriately . |