Example sentences of "only [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most students the only essays which really count are the ones they will write in the final examination . |
| 2 | The only blokes I like is Chris Tarrant he 's quite good . |
| 3 | The thumb prick had become a finger prick over the years and was the only bit which mildly hurt . |
| 4 | ‘ The only times you ever make any effort to think , ’ says Phil , ‘ are when you 're trying to understand what I 'm saying . |
| 5 | This , he claims , is the only guitar he ever wanted . |
| 6 | The Maastricht Treaty is the only framework which currently exists for consolidating the European community 's role in furthering European integration . |
| 7 | The only case I ever get . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 9 | ( Brian London , he observed , was the only boxer he ever knew with a cauliflower ae . ) |
| 10 | An interesting entry by the Kildalton minister relates that " The only animals which formerly existed in the parish , but are now extinct , are red-deer and foxes . " |
| 11 | An interesting entry by the Kildalton minister relates that " The only animals which formerly existed in the parish , but are now extinct , are red-deer and foxes . " |
| 12 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 13 | The only department which explicitly escapes unscathed is the one which Conservatives would most like to abolish : the Department of Energy . |
| 14 | You see , Richard and his wife , Elizabeth , known as Aunt Bessie , had lost the only child they ever had . |
| 15 | It 's the only guitar and the only amp he actually owns and , basically , that 's his sound . |
| 16 | It was to be the only home he ever owned in Palestine . |
| 17 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 18 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 19 | The o the only shopping I like is shopping for music , but even then I ca n't decide and , it 's horrible . |
| 20 | All her father remembered about his grandfather was that he was a dour man and that the only relaxation he ever gave himself was at the races . |
| 21 | The British Deaf and Dumb Association is the only body which directly represents the adult deaf and dumb and is controlled by them . |
| 22 | Lord Home for one disapproved , recalling ‘ the only difference I ever had with Mr Macmillan . |
| 23 | I think they did , yeah Because I do n't get much time during the day er to go away from the shop but er I , the only job I mostly do is when the visitors come to the er temple I have to go there explain about Sikhism . |
| 24 | Yours was the only group I ever taught maths — a stop-gap teacher for a year . |
| 25 | It may be scruffy , but it is where one belongs , and the only place one ever will belong : a world of pub-going rather than café-haunting , usually more self-examining than woundingly self-critical , and pleased ( even grateful ) to be alive , in a cautious sort of way . |
| 26 | The only place I really want to be is my own flat . ’ |
| 27 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 28 | The only place I ever heard what I would call politics was at the British Holistic Medical Association which is the rival to the British Medical Association . |
| 29 | The only day I actually wan na see him and the bastard 's on leave . |
| 30 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |