Example sentences of "the one person " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 2 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 3 | He was the one person within his household who had told him the truth ; he had been his eyes and ears in the community , voiced the opinions of the man in the street . |
| 4 | Even David could be flippant and bizarre and go off and do his own thing , and Dad was the one person in the family who was the anchor . ’ |
| 5 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 6 | Was he simply crazy or the one person who knew the truth , the right way . |
| 7 | The death of his mother certainly took from Louis-Napoleon the one person ( with perhaps the exception of his son ) to whom — during his entire life — he was totally devoted and to whose memory he was always faithful . |
| 8 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 9 | If a cat enters a room where several people are talking , it is very likely to make for the one person there who has an abnormal fear of felines . |
| 10 | ‘ Which still does n't explain why he dumped the one person who knows how to ride Shine On . ’ |
| 11 | The one person it did n't seem eccentric to , because he did n't notice it , was her father . |
| 12 | Tempy was a friend , as well as her maid , the one person in whom Tamar felt that she could confide . |
| 13 | You may be the one person to bring about improvements which will benefit many others as well as yourself . |
| 14 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Anyone connected to Barnet would know how much Barry Fry loves the club and is the one person who has kept it together . |
| 16 | The body is the new humanity : the one person of Christ and his adopted brothers and sisters . |
| 17 | Freddie had never liked her , but he knew at once that she might be the one person who could give him valuable assistance with his research . |
| 18 | The one person amongst them who did n't move back was the young man with the whiskers and the private placard of his own . |
| 19 | The one person who always jogs my mind when reading MKM is Joan Lafferty . |
| 20 | On the spur of the moment , Matilda decided that the one person she would like to confide in was Miss Honey . |
| 21 | It stuck in his mind because she was the one person who , of course , had n't mentioned the snow , hadn't. even noticed it because of being stuck in ‘ that gloomy hole ’ as she put it herself , day in , day out , and that evil husband of hers never there , net ; er ! |
| 22 | In the case of pornography , what happens is that the one person becomes a body desired by the other , but this is not reciprocated . |
| 23 | It is , perhaps , unrealistic to expect all these roles and responsibilities to be vested in the one person of the fertility counsellor , who works in an underfunded area of treatment where resources are continually diminishing . |
| 24 | You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him . |
| 25 | Yet , some obituaries extend to twenty or more orthographic paragraphs ‘ about ’ the one person , and whole chapters of novels , containing over a hundred lengthy orthographic paragraphs , may be ‘ about ’ the same individual . |
| 26 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 27 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 28 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
| 29 | Relatives and friends , the one person missing here today is of course , Anne 's father , and no day can be really happy without him with us . |
| 30 | The one person I could talk to was Pat and she was great . |