Example sentences of "[vb past] i was the only [noun sg] " 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 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 7 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |