Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] was the only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 2 | The East German government clearly felt this was the only way it could agree to the departure of more than 5,000 East Germans who had flooded into the Prague embassy since the first batch were allowed to leave on Saturday night . |
| 3 | He knew this was the only way . |
| 4 | Grudging Polish promises to end serfdom , made when the szlachta thought this was the only concession that would rally the peasantry to them against foreign aggression , came too late and in any case lagged far behind the pre-emptive Prussian declarations ending serfdom . |
| 5 | And they said that was the only way that they could clear the backlog within the time limit that Mrs Bottomley has set . |