Example sentences of "only person [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas , as a cardmaker , was by no means the only person down the lane in that year who depended upon the wool trade for his livelihood : we find several shearmen , a scribbler , a weaver and a wiredrawer , with the added variety of a butcher and a baker , a tailor and a miller , John Moon at the Lamb and Fountain Inn , and a lady charmingly described as a ‘ widow bewitched ’ . |
| 2 | The only person on the organisers ' side of the room who spoke a language I understand , was Peter Slade , a trim , slight figure , quietly expounding his belief in the value of drama in work with children . |
| 3 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 4 | The driver , the only person on the train , was treated in hospital for shock . |
| 5 | He was jealous of Yolande and was the only person with the King when he died . |
| 6 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
| 7 | The only person with the perspective and authority to judge and communicate personal effectiveness is an employee 's accountable manager , who , in most cases , is also the only person from whom an employee will accept evaluation and coaching . |
| 8 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 9 | It was surprising , really , that the only person in the school whom Dr Ali had sentenced to death should be Robert . |
| 10 | Brutus was the only person in the play who was n't working for himself and although he was idealistic , he stuck to his plans and carried them through . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) is apparently the only person in the country who does not yet believe that the minimum wage would cost a substantial number of jobs if it were implemented . |
| 12 | You 're the only person in the country who has n't seen Marathon Man ! |
| 13 | ‘ Nik did n't want to be Richard 's yes-man in the company , ’ says Berry , ‘ and , frankly , he was the only person in the company with the position to be anything other than Richard 's yes-man . |
| 14 | He must be the only person in the village with a view , if he chose to take it , of both vest and surplice . |
| 15 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 16 | You 've gone on for years about being the only person in the West Country with the faintest notion how to prune roses . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't mean here , this version necessarily , but you 're not the only person in the world who keeps up with the wider literature , you know . |
| 18 | If Greg Martin is alive then perhaps he is the only person in the world who can supply the answers . ’ |
| 19 | If you 're the only person in the world without a Jimi Hendrix compilation , consider Polygram 's ‘ The Ultimate Experience ’ . |
| 20 | The only person in the world who continued to show her unfailing kindness was Corporal John Carrow . |
| 21 | He was being hunted ; she was the only person in the world who knew where he would go to hide . |
| 22 | James smiled at Barbara , and she found herself smiling back ; his charm was the kind that , while it is directed at you , makes you feel you are the only person in the world . |
| 23 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |
| 24 | 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 ! ’ |
| 25 | How could he have hit his brother , the only person in the world with whom he felt fully relaxed , happy , and at home ? |
| 26 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew I was n't the only person in the world you 'd got the courage to shout at , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Am I the only person in the world who feels so strongly ? |
| 29 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 30 | Once away from the car parks you could be the only person in the world . ’ |