Example sentences of "was the one [noun] he " in BNC.

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1 For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask .
2 This was the one call he was allowed .
3 But plasterwork was the one craft he continued all his life .
4 Hoomey was more frightened of doing it than anything else , even the swimming , and yet , curiously , it was the one thing he actually wanted to succeed at .
5 That was the one thing he was n't going to have .
6 Loving Niall , she wanted … needed … a total commitment in return , and that , it seemed , was the one thing he was n't prepared to give .
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