Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] 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 At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it .
10 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 ! ’
11 They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia .
14 She really wanted to know ; though it would be painful , she knew it was the only way .
15 I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance .
16 The person who issued it is the only person who can change it . ’
17 Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain .
18 The reason we did those mailings is because of the warning that we had they were the only mailings available by the way .
19 Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it .
20 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 !
21 and he said it was the only year that he has n't .
22 He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’
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