Example sentences of "only [adj] [noun sg] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 2 | But apart from the United States she was the only non-European state which could claim anything like this status . |
| 3 | Aromatherapy is the only healing art which could be described as creative in an artistic sense . |
| 4 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 5 | I did the only decent thing I could do . |
| 6 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 8 | It was the only small luxury he could discover . |
| 9 | He found the coffee jar and put a heaped spoonful into the only clean mug he could find . |
| 10 | just mention what I 've heard , the only statutory job he could do , is apply his licence in . |
| 11 | The only new thing I could add was the prison bit , and Mrs McDougall had not told the girls anything about the offence of which Ewen had been convicted . |
| 12 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 13 | I mean the only other thing we could do would be |
| 14 | The the only other thing we could do would be to put would be to make colour acetates and then team brief them . |
| 15 | The only other thing you could do |
| 16 | He 's the only other guy I could trust here . ’ |
| 17 | Part-time employment was often the only paid employment they could find , while others had little choice but to work part-time if they were to fulfil their changing domestic commitments . |
| 18 | In spite of the struggle Bomber Command endured and the casualties suffered , particularly in the first two years when the bombers did so badly , and the only positive result we could measure was the shocking number of losses in aircrew , we were squandering our seed-corn . |