Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 2 | Over the watershed , the A.87 runs alongside Loch Cluanie , now a reservoir , below the steep slopes of more Munros ; on the summit of one of them , Carn Ghluasaid , I disturbed the only ptarmigan I have ever seen . |
| 3 | ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World . |
| 4 | I should now clarify that statement by rephrasing it : I adopted the only strategy open to me in order to preserve any sort of identity , however precarious , and in order to believe in myself as an individual being , separate from both the family and the school . |
| 5 | ‘ I decided the only way to come back was with a fresh new look , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 7 | ‘ So I knew the only way to get you running was to start moving . ’ |
| 8 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 9 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 10 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 11 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 12 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |
| 13 | Erm , yes I did the only problem |
| 14 | I did the only thing I knew to retaliate . |
| 15 | I did the only thing I could : I became anorexic . |
| 16 | I stated in the last chapter that , in becoming anorexic , I did the only thing I could . |
| 17 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 18 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 19 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 20 | So I said the only thing he would believe . |
| 21 | so he was gon na do the same for me , do a bit of shopping well I said you 'll get it like give you the money , so he says well I was gon na do the same but I said the only thing is when we go to the cash desk er , I said I 'm gon na leave you , I said I 'm not standing there |
| 22 | I had the only key . |
| 23 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 24 | So vivid was his description that I suggested the only kindness would be to put the nag down before the race . |
| 25 | With my luck , Ginny , I 'd lose if I backed the only filly in a one horse race , ’ Mark told her , suddenly conscious of the fact that his speech was beginning to slur . |
| 26 | The big man was not there so she opened the only door marked ‘ Private ’ . |
| 27 | She pressed the only button , and the cage was drawn up into the heart of City Hall . |
| 28 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 29 | ‘ She did the only thing she could under the circumstances . |
| 30 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |