Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 2 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 3 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 4 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 5 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 6 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 7 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 8 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 9 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 10 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 11 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 12 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 13 | They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much . |
| 14 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 16 | She spoke firmly , knowing it was the only way to lie . |
| 17 | Laura declined the offer of a public honour , knowing it was the only way to salvage her husband 's personal honour , which was the more important to her . |
| 18 | She really wanted to know ; though it would be painful , she knew it was the only way . |
| 19 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 20 | ‘ I should think he was the only creature for whom Lavinia truly cared . ’ |
| 21 | I think we were the only house in the village which had no damage whatsoever . ’ |
| 22 | because , well I get paid off when the receivers come in , I was about three month out before I got sent back for and er the starting wage was , I think we actually got a wee rise , I think we were the only section that |
| 23 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 24 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
| 25 | The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way . |
| 26 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 27 | I said well I apologize for sending all that sir , I said , but I said it was the only way to get somebody 's attention of what was going on ! |
| 28 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 29 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 're going to be angry with me and then we 'll agree it was the only way to strike against any possible opposition . |