Example sentences of "only [noun sg] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the only response you can make to any child who 's facing a challenge is that you care , that you will be patient , that you will go on and on and on . |
| 2 | which is the only update I can do , cos they 're in banks of four . |
| 3 | If this is the only decision they can come up with , they should resign en bloc . |
| 4 | The entire novel is written in a series of letters : Celie 's semi-literate ones to God ( the only confidante she can find ) which tell of her ugly sexual experiences as a child and wife , her separation from her beloved sister Nettie and ultimately her triumphant love for her husband 's beautiful lover ; Nettie 's letters to Celie ; and finally Celie 's to Nettie . |
| 5 | Kevin says he 's swimming backstroke because it 's the only stroke he can do . |
| 6 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |
| 7 | I thank Heavenly Father , for it is the only escape I can think of . |
| 8 | Therefore , the only committee which can over-ride it , is this one . |
| 9 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
| 10 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
| 11 | The only difference I can find lies in the darker , more spiteful vision of the new film , and the fact that the cast seems almost manically inclined to get through it all as fast as possible and at as high a pitch as the Dolby Stereo can cope with . |
| 12 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 13 | If so , it 's the only blessing I can discern in it . |
| 14 | If the only quotation you can find is not very relevant or complimentary , adapt it . |
| 15 | If we do not want to reset entire articles ( impossible in the rush of printing schedules ) , the only place we can make cuts or additions is at the end of paragraphs . |
| 16 | Pornography is the only place we can create our own images of lesbian and gay sex which celebrate its joy and beauty . |
| 17 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 18 | The only erm exception and that 's not even in your price structure , is that if somebody says , Look is there any chance I can have colour , that 's the only place they can have it on the back copy back cover sorry . |
| 19 | I dive to the only place I can go : shoulder first through Richardson 's window . |
| 20 | On the far side , where Andy is heading , the bank is tall and steep where the water has cut into the hill , removing sand and gravel and stones and leaving an overhang of earth and exposed , dangling tree-roots ; the dark gravel space under that ragged overhang is the only place I can see where there is no snow . |
| 21 | The only place I can cut down is food … |
| 22 | This place is nowhere for you but it 's the only place you can exist . |
| 23 | We were in bed — probably the worst place , but when you 've got three kids it 's the only place you can talk . |
| 24 | It 's the only place you can get a bit of hokey-pokey , sizzling by day and guzzling by night , talk about dolce vita ! when you get your splints off come over for a week . |
| 25 | Nigel says the golf course is the only place he can relax and switch off … |
| 26 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 27 | You 're the only person we can ask , Liz . |
| 28 | Well if Labour do n't get in do n't get in this time , the only person they can blame is their leader . |
| 29 | But erm , the , so although he , he , the point I 'm making is although it was who says he mentioned symbolism , or became aware of it , it 's er , it does n't conflict with the point th that , that we were making earlier , that the only person who can interpret their dreams is the dreamer ultimately . |
| 30 | The person who issued it is the only person who can change it . ’ |