Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [prep] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's about the only person that even Crumwallis is reluctant to employ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about the only word of English you do know . ’ |
| 3 | It 's about the only crime we get here . ’ |
| 4 | It 's about the only time I really hate the job , you know — with accidents and so on … having to tell the relatives , and all that . ’ |
| 5 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 6 | It 's about the only thing you do care about . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't like doing this , but nowadays it 's about the only thing I 'm much good at . ’ |
| 8 | " I keep the position-register for all our ships — it 's about the only thing I 'm allowed to do nowadays , since all the secretarial work goes to Mr. Lennis 's bright young things . |
| 9 | The other one , the other one that I find interesting is I hope Mr will take his comments back to John , because John 's quite happy , I applaud him for once , it 's about the only thing I do applaud John for , erm , but John 's quite happy to turn round to Norway and say forget your centuries old traditions of killing whales . |
| 10 | One of them is in the only escape pod that ejected from the starship . |