Example sentences of "one who [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were the one who raised the subject . |
| 2 | It went without saying that the truly self-respecting native was the one who understood the indecency of aspiring beyond his station . |
| 3 | A disciple is one who hears the call of Jesus and joins his company . |
| 4 | And he can go on avoiding him forever on the grounds that he was the one who split the title . |
| 5 | It may be that long experience of minorities encouraged them to feel that they could cope better with an absentee ruler than one who upset the balance of power at home . |
| 6 | He 's the one who gets the feel as to whether the company really are trying … or not . |
| 7 | and the one who owned the car was itching to get Joe dumped so that he could turn around and make the slow , crawling drive across town to his home . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I wanted to be the one who does the work , ’ Roland began innocently , and then saw how he had been insulted . |
| 9 | Peter is most unhappy about his wife 's views on physical punishment and still more unhappy about the fact that she now expects him , as head of the household , to be the one who does the spanking . |
| 10 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 11 | One of his companions has remained with him ; a third , the one who sounded the alarm , is returning to the scene of the accident with the rescue team , which you can see gathering behind me . |
| 12 | He is the only one who saw the monk 's face , by the altar lamp as they lifted the reliquary . |
| 13 | One who saw the pistol thought it was a toy . |
| 14 | ‘ We have one or two players of that age breaking through and Kevin was the one who got the opening , ’ Jordan said . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's go hunt ourselves a party , ’ says the one who owns the boat . |
| 16 | She was the one who felt the tension . |
| 17 | Mr Weller may not have actually been the one who shut the door but it was inferred from what was heard that he was . |
| 18 | who was the one who played the missionary in Carry on up the Khyber pass and that ? |
| 19 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 20 | First because he or she has been regarded ( especially in psychoanalytic theory ) as one who fears the difference of the ‘ other ’ or opposite sex , and , in flight from it , narcissistically embraces the same sex instead . |
| 21 | You see , in the first place , he is the one who takes the initiative to seek you . |
| 22 | It will be noted in that case that the assignee , having obtained relief under the statute , was in the position of one who had the protection of the bankruptcy laws . |
| 23 | And is it Marg the one who had the friend in America , or was that Jacky ? |
| 24 | She 's the one who had the whorehouse , she had the whorehouse |
| 25 | But when the word was spoken by one who had the authority to speak , and especially when spoken in his presence and with his implied assent , he obeyed without discussion or reservation . |
| 26 | No one who reads THE FACE needs to know the post-acid conclusion to the story . |
| 27 | No one who reads the speech of the President of the Union at the inaugural meeting of the mission , before Temple opened his mouth , can suppose that that President needed converting to Christianity . |
| 28 | Should you be acting as the peacemaker in your family , or the one who breaks the conspiracy of silence ? |
| 29 | A letter to the Reich Propaganda Ministry from a former employee currently in a military hospital , dealing with the mood among soldiers , stated that he had yet to meet a single one who accepted the Führer 's figures . |
| 30 | Like one who lacked the courage |