Example sentences of "one who [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they 'd met he was the one who had been in charge , the one who had called the tune . |
| 2 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |
| 3 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 4 | But what of the other , that one who had planned the death ? |
| 5 | About the same time , and rather surprisingly for a Tory committed to the old East India Company and one who had lost the remittance contract to the newly founded Bank of England , Herne also joined the so-called tobacco contractors . |
| 6 | One who had followed the King 's army from London to Coventry was ‘ taken by the soldiers , and first led about the city then set in a pillory , after in a cage then ducked in a river , and at last banished the city ’ . |
| 7 | But one who had given no thought to love . |
| 8 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 9 | He opposed the Arminians and gave evidence to the Lords as one who had heard the notorious sermon at St Giles by the king 's chaplain , Roger Manwaring [ q.v. ] ( 1628–9 ) . |
| 10 | To one who had made a special study of refraction , the answer was obvious . |
| 11 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 12 | Apart from Benjamin and I , he was the only one who had left the manor so his cloak and boots would have been covered in snow . |
| 13 | It was the biggest of her sons speaking now , the one who had opened the door , and he said , ‘ She 's a classy piece , Ma , and she 's come with some strange news . |
| 14 | Especially when after one who had seduced a mother of three , and had got what he wanted , threatened her by blackmail of telling a brutal husband about this if she did not continue the association . |
| 15 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 16 | He was the one who had got the photograph that had enabled her father to do the portrait . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven . |
| 19 | Then the guy round the corner , y'know , the one who 'd laid the gear on me , came round last month and started getting heavy about the money I owed him . |
| 20 | She was the one with the debts and money problems ; the one who 'd suggested the jeweller 's shop job . |