Example sentences of "only [noun sg] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 2 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 3 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 4 | ‘ His work is the only thing that sustains him , ’ Ketura said . |
| 5 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 6 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |