Example sentences of "only [noun sg] in the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you like a good soak in the bath , but the only loo in the house is in the bathroom , you may want to think about installing another , separate toilet . |
| 2 | As the only lady in the house , Judith took charge of certain household affairs such as the ordering of supplies . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's the only picture in the house , ’ she said , and realized that Roger probably knew this already . |
| 4 | The only sound in the house is the occasional last convulsive sob from the top of the stairs . |
| 5 | Voices could be heard from the kitchen — the only room in the house which had any heating and so the one where they all assembled . |
| 6 | The only person in the house who did not appear excited was Grace Poole , who stayed in her room upstairs , coming down once a day for food and drink . |
| 7 | It has n't always been easy being the only woman in the house ! |
| 8 | There is a cherry-wood bathroom , the splendid Pink Bedroom , and the rooms where the Nethercotts ' three sons sleep and play — one of which sports the only Velux in the house . |
| 9 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 10 | For the first time in his life , Jonadab Oaks was the only man in the house . |
| 11 | In front of the door was the only tap in the house , over a plain earthenware sink about five inches in depth from which the water went into a drain underneath . |
| 12 | Though it is the only staircase in the house , so hard is the wood that 450 years of treading have worn no hollows in the steps … |
| 13 | They followed him to the study because for economy it was the only fire in the house , but he worked through their conversation and did not join it . |