Example sentences of "only man i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only man I know ’ , wrote Karel Kyncl earlier this year , ‘ who blushes when confronted with something deplorable . ’ |
| 2 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
| 3 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
| 4 | Bradshaw was the only man I met to laugh at twenty-foot waves . |
| 5 | ‘ My brother , who is 17 , is perhaps the only man I trust now . |
| 6 | He 's the only man I 've met who does n't fall obsequiously to his knees and bow in the direction of Maranello when the name of Enzo Ferrari is mentioned . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , to the only man I could trust . |
| 8 | He was the only man I have ever known who once actually fell out of a hammock with laughing . |
| 9 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |
| 10 | He is the only man I know who led a quango in a successful way , the head of a lean , mean team which delivered the goods . ’ |
| 11 | You may , sir , the rather believe me when I declare that the only man I could honour more than another is the gentleman who of all others seeks my everlasting dishonour . |
| 12 | But I just ca n't do this with anyone else , because a long time ago I was raped , and my lover is the only man I could bear to touch me . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , that 's all right , since you 're the only man I 've ever wanted to be possessed by . |