Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [art] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 3 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 4 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 5 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 6 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 7 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 10 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 11 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | I thought I was the only one mad enough to go walking in this weather . ’ |
| 14 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 15 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 16 | He 's always sending her flowers — and last time I looked she was the only one on his list who got an ‘ A ’ . |
| 17 | She really wanted to know ; though it would be painful , she knew it was the only way . |
| 18 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 19 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 20 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
| 21 | As the cab drove out of Frankfurt to the address on the way to the airport , Horowitz , sitting erect , case in his lap , reflected he was the only real professional in this game . |
| 22 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 23 | Three Indian mats and a beautiful deep purple , rose-orange and sepia white-fringed Turkish carpet ( he said it was the only one ‘ they ’ had , so no credit to his taste ) . |
| 24 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 25 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 26 | You said it was the only reasonable thing to do , yet now , when at last I agree , you say it 's too late . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ! |