Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 2 | Luckily she was the only person on the top deck at the time . |
| 3 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |
| 4 | Yeah but all of them ate it and he was still he was the only one that died . |
| 5 | It was from Egypt , too , that the Minoans imported a limited range of manufactured goods ; the fact that nearly all the imports of manufactured goods were Egyptian reflects the Minoans ' admiration for Egyptian culture : possibly it was the only culture they regarded as the equal of their own . |
| 6 | It seems incredible , does n't it , but like it was the only practical way to do it was n't it ? |
| 7 | He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers . |
| 8 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 9 | Now she was the only person near enough Zambia could think of who could help hir . |
| 10 | The majority of young girls who went into prostitution had not been dragged or coerced into ‘ shame ’ ; often it was the only course that seemed open . |
| 11 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 12 | And er and then he was the only one who did it . |
| 13 | Yet she was the only sane grown-up I knew now that I could cross Anwar and Jeeta off my list of normals . |
| 14 | He had not paid enough attention to Anna , he had not even seen the girl , and yet she was the only one to benefit obviously and directly from her father dying when he did . |
| 15 | Yet it was the only way to go if the labels they represent were to compete with the might of the majors . |
| 16 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 17 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |