Example sentences of "only [noun sg] [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My younger sister is the only person who could possibly take the girls if we died , and I 'm not sure that she would really want them . |
| 2 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 3 | THE ONLY man who could actually get Deirdre nicked off him . |
| 4 | He caused more suffering among his allow drivers than any other man I ever saw race and the only man who could possibly come closer to him as a road-hog , even when his own position was hopeless , was Riccardo Patrese , a far more refined driver than Clay in every other respect . |
| 5 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 6 | Livingston said : ‘ I gave that straight to the British doctor in Barcelona because that is the only thing I could even remotely think might be behind the drug result . |
| 7 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 8 | Living Together as Husband and Wife is very concerned about being ‘ fair ’ to the married couple , but the only way they could truly be ‘ fair ’ to the married housewife would be to entitle the single housewife to less SB than she gets … and you can not entitle even a single housewife to less than nothing . |
| 9 | And the only way she could possibly avoid it was by swerving blindly in the opposite direction , while at the same time slamming down hard on the brake . |
| 10 | That 's the only way you could actually make that work at all . |
| 11 | Realising that the only way he could possibly fulfil his considerable potential was by going abroad , James accepted the invitation offered by the famous cricketer Learie Constantine to join him in Nelson , Lancashire . |
| 12 | The only way he could really help her , that is if he was genuine about it , was by doing it seriously . |
| 13 | The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp . |