Example sentences of "one [Wh pn] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To one who had made a special study of refraction , the answer was obvious . |
| 2 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 3 | The Queen as Head of State gives overall stability to the political system and the Prime Minister as Head of Government is one who has served a long apprenticeship in parliament in high office of state and who is the elected leader of a party which has the confidence of the nation . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's this ? ’ said Piggy-wig , straddling a chair with the triumph of one who has mistressed a Zanussi automatic . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , ’ said Flora , in the dead and hopeless tone of one who has uttered a particular , heartfelt question over and over , to no avail , ‘ why does school have to be so horrible ? ’ |
| 6 | No one who has visited a Greek tax office in a provincial town , and seen rows of clerks thumbing and date-stamping their way through piles of dusty paper , can feel confident that a new broom is truly on the way . |
| 7 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |