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Example sentences of "only [noun] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ The only times you ever make any effort to think , ’ says Phil , ‘ are when you 're trying to understand what I 'm saying .
2	This , he claims , is the only guitar he ever wanted .
3	The only case I ever get .
4	‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’
5	( Brian London , he observed , was the only boxer he ever knew with a cauliflower ae . )
6	Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ .
7	You see , Richard and his wife , Elizabeth , known as Aunt Bessie , had lost the only child they ever had .
8	It 's the only guitar and the only amp he actually owns and , basically , that 's his sound .
9	It was to be the only home he ever owned in Palestine .
10	Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face .
11	All her father remembered about his grandfather was that he was a dour man and that the only relaxation he ever gave himself was at the races .
12	Lord Home for one disapproved , recalling ‘ the only difference I ever had with Mr Macmillan .
13	I think they did , yeah Because I do n't get much time during the day er to go away from the shop but er I , the only job I mostly do is when the visitors come to the er temple I have to go there explain about Sikhism .
14	Yours was the only group I ever taught maths — a stop-gap teacher for a year .
15	The only place I really want to be is my own flat . ’
16	The only place I ever heard what I would call politics was at the British Holistic Medical Association which is the rival to the British Medical Association .
17	But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms .
18	The only day I actually wan na see him and the bastard 's on leave .
19	The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him .
20	This idea of visiting us was proposed by them , and we were very pleased , as it 's the only chance we really get to meet them socially .
21	I asked him to take that out , but I 'm sure that was the only edit I ever insisted on from his work , which otherwise was super .
22	The only person I really see is my neighbour next door .
23	The only person I ever felt I might fall in love with again in the same way was a Japanese , the poet Takahashi Mutsuo .
24	He was the only person I ever saw using it , and I suspect it was especially dusted for his benefit ; the rest of the tram was tremendously dusty all summer .
25	An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams .
26	This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband .
27	The only people they ever see are each other .
28	Could it be that the only people they really care about are the ones who can afford big cars and foreign holidays ?
29	The only people he really feels any curiosity about are his listeners — ’
30	Apart from himself , the only people he really cares about are his listeners ; the radio relationship is the only sort of genuine love-affair he 's ever known .