Example sentences of "the only [noun sg] she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 2 | ‘ When I did get back she had a very strange and dangerous problem which she dumped in my lap , assured me I was the only man she could trust to handle it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the end , the only question she could frame was the simplest one of all : ‘ What have you done about this ? ’ |
| 5 | When she was first married , I was the only person she could turn to . |
| 6 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 7 | The only person she could imagine lying in it with her was Guido . |
| 8 | It was the only way she could express it , remembering Justinette 's assertions of how she had experienced altered states of consciousness this way . |
| 9 | And asking him to supper was the only way she could do this . |
| 10 | Obviously she had to go to Dublin and stay in the convent there ; this was the only way she could train for a career . |
| 11 | Finally it was suggested that if her father continued to be unkind or unpleasant , the only way she could increase the level of care she provided would be to move away from her family and live with him . |
| 12 | It was the only way she could have known , unless Mary had phoned . |
| 13 | ‘ Her carriage was the only way she could get out . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 15 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 16 | She stooped again , waggling her backside , which was the only way she could think of moving from her hips . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That was the only way she could exist with men in a man 's world . |
| 19 | It was the only way she could lie to him . |
| 20 | It was the only way she could regain her strength . |
| 21 | That was the only way she could cope with Friedrich , by blocking him out from her mind . |
| 22 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 23 | You want snuggling , I got snuggling , she fumed , knowing for sure that she was n't the clinging type but , with some devil on her back , this way seeming to be the only way she could cope with being ‘ engaged ’ . |
| 24 | My mother reckoned she had to invite the Dalgety team to lunch every year because it was the only way she could get me to take a day off . |
| 25 | Well only by getting a lift to the clinic , yeah , that 's the only way she could get there |
| 26 | The only place she could think of was her father 's . |
| 27 | This was the only place she could think of . |
| 28 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 29 | She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself . |
| 30 | The only place she could disappear into in that space of time was Marshall 's cottage . |