Sentence examples for the only pupils from inspiring English sources

The sole black family on the vast Whinmoor estate in Leeds ("full of skinheads"), the Phillips brothers were the only pupils to pass the 11-plus.

Unfortunately, Emily says she's a Benn not a Bennite, and admits she was one of the only pupils in her school to support the war.

It wasn't well-known as a fame factory back then, she insists – the only pupils in pictures on the walls were Katie Melua and Amy Winehouse, who was only there a few terms.

Looking forward to new schools The sisters are far from the only pupils at Beteni Community School who live in temporary huts.

James was not the only pupil of Buchanan's who never forgot him.

Her recordings of Kurt Weill's music were enhanced by the special relationship she had as the only pupil of Weill's widow Lotte Lenya.

I began jazz singing classes in 2002, the only pupil who couldn't manage those lovely long jazz phrases without snatching little breaths.

She is the only pupil of Dr. Muck, and she is the only American ever to graduate from the Conducting school of the State Academy of Music in Berlin.

"I grew up in Cardiff, went to an ordinary comprehensive school, and was the only pupil in my year to go to Oxbridge," Mr. Moritz explained.

In a show of left-hand, right-hand ignorance, the government insists that free school meals are "the only pupil-level measure of deprivation available".

It has certainly got under the skin of Simon, whose difficult relationship with Martine, gradually disclosed, has somehow alienated him from Alice, the only pupil in the class to deal head-on with their loss.