Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the only [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 2 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 3 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 4 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 5 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 6 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 7 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 8 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 9 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 10 | He cleared the summerhouse so she would have a studio , and gave her the only key . |
| 11 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |