Example sentences of "only [noun] i [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But then he 's the only son-in-law I have ever had . ’ |
| 2 | I do indeed , yes , yes , it 's the only watch I own , and it 's the only watch I 've ever had , no , no , that 's true , er not true I should say I 've got a half hunter . |
| 3 | I feel a little as I felt when the only racehorse I 've ever owned ran at Lincoln . " |
| 4 | What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation . |
| 5 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 6 | It is the only seawater I have ever swum in which infects rather than heals an open wound . |
| 7 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 8 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 9 | the only place I 've not got it is my abdomen and my chest . |
| 10 | The only problems I 've ever had with it was the fucking n erm that thingie I had were n't it ? |
| 11 | I mean the I mean , like , I mean , people say it that a personality makes up for like , looks or whatever , and with hi , he 's the only person I 've ever met where it really really does ! |
| 12 | 45754 : Mravinsky is the only conductor I have ever heard make Shostakovich 's Twelfth Symphony remotely convincing . |
| 13 | But you , Shannon Lea — you are the only woman I 've ever loved , the only one I ever will love . |
| 14 | My little Shelley , you are the only woman I have ever met who can make me very happy . |
| 15 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that 's all right , since you 're the only man I 've ever wanted to be possessed by . |
| 17 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |
| 18 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
| 19 | He was the only man I have ever known who once actually fell out of a hammock with laughing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ The fear of poverty , the abject poverty of my youth , was the only motivation I 've ever had . |
| 23 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 24 | And then we 've basically the only two The only thing I have n't turned is crime . |
| 25 | I said well I can do everything in the hotel trade from housemaid to housekeeper to barmaid , the only thing I have n't done is managed one but I could do that if I had to and I done , done booking of the reception and I 've done bar , I 've done diner 's room , I 've done kitchen , I 've done |
| 26 | The only thing I have n't found yet though is a room with a good access to the sea below . ’ |
| 27 | The Shetlanders were the only children I have ever known who had only to be asked once to perform in public , without even token resistance they took to their fiddles and played . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's the only oracle I 've ever read that meant anything to me . ’ |
| 29 | And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er . |
| 30 | That 's the only way I 've ever found to describe it . |