Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [was/were] the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most significant appearance was at the second day of the Putney debates , where he was the only civilian present besides the legally trained and dialectically more skilled ( Sir ) John Wildman [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 3 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know if I was the only one that did n't receive the check list ? |
| 5 | Cos you get all the times against that clock cos I did well at it because I , cos I was the only one that , I was closest , you ca n't get any closer than one second ! |
| 6 | Cos I need some friends around just to like protect me cos I was the only girl last week and I just had no one to refer to . |
| 7 | ‘ And then — this evening , when everyone was so upset … you only thought of her … you went off after her as if she were the only person that mattered to you … |
| 8 | She felt as if she was the only person awake in the world . |
| 9 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 10 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |
| 11 | If you were the only girl in the world , |
| 12 | " If you were the only girl in the world and I was the only boy , nothing else would matter in the whole wide world , " my mother would sing inappropriately . |
| 13 | He sang If You Were the Only Girl in the World and he sang Help Me Make It Through the Night . |
| 14 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 15 | The deeper into Kent Julie drove the more the two women began to feel as if they were the only people left on earth . |
| 16 | But even as eye and ear follow the darting changes here and there , as if they were the only reality , even as that happens we are made aware that the great screen is showing some sharply outlined human scene — the easy or awkward coming together of acquaintances in this pub , that cemetery , this newspaper office , that maternity hospital , library or brothel the making and the unmaking of friendships and hopes — the experience of solitude . |
| 17 | He admitted that with prevailing high interest rates he was not particularly keen to mount a management bid , but would do so if it was the only way to safeguard shareholder value . |
| 18 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 19 | ‘ How about if it was the only way you could save yourself losing every corporate customer you 've got ? ’ |
| 20 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 21 | America has lost patience with the Vance-Owen plan , and now rattles the ‘ lift and strike ’ strategy as if it were the only weapon in its armoury . |
| 22 | The present system , might be defensible if it were the only means by which the Chancellor could sustain tax revenue from alcoholic drinks in real terms . |
| 23 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 24 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 25 | If he were the only ‘ rookie ’ in defence , I would not be so worried , but Newsome and Wetherall are hardly going to be a stabilising influence . |
| 26 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 27 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 28 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 29 | But , because his was the only voice to shout ‘ not content ’ , the amendment was put again . |
| 30 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |