Example sentences of "only [noun sg] i can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just you get your horrible child seen to , Mrs Day , that 's the only advice I can give you . ’ |
| 2 | In fact I can only suggest that 's the only area I can put you in . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 4 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 5 | The only thing I can see there is the different venues will obviously will have different , differences to cope with that |
| 6 | That 's the only way I can explain my behaviour . |
| 7 | When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not a yeller , but the only way I can handle him if he gets like that is , I yell back . |
| 9 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 10 | If that 's the only way I can persuade you . |
| 11 | That 's the only way I can see it . |
| 12 | . Yeah that 's the only way I can see it trying to use those and have them back on Friday . . |
| 13 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 14 | Older , of course , and more grown up is the only way I can describe it . ’ |
| 15 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 16 | I want a shot at the world title and the only way I can get it , is to beat Frank on Saturday night and that 's what I 'm here for . |
| 17 | The only way I can remember it , that way round . |
| 18 | I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to . |
| 19 | I ring up Richard , and Richard says the only time I can see you is seven o'clock Tuesday night , and I 've got no appointment . |
| 20 | ‘ The only time I can remember him with any coat at all was when we wintered him out as a three or four-year old , which we did deliberately to toughen him up . ’ |