Example sentences of "one [Wh pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor have I any wish to see him caught by one who would drag him back to the city lights . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He wants an heir but not one who would disinherit him presumably . |
| 3 | Ifor was loved and revered by the small brother whom he in turn saw as the family 's great hope of true escape , a conqueror , the one who would show them . |
| 4 | One who would speak your name and seeks to know the woman in you ! |
| 5 | So if Hereward did turn up one who would threaten his inheritance , he might want to keep it , and Hereward , quiet . ’ |
| 6 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 7 | There is one who would know you , is there not ? |
| 8 | I was the one who would help him back to bed , I was the one who would read lines to him in the morning before he went on the set . ’ |
| 9 | Despite their unfaithfulness to him the people chosen by God continued to dream of deliverance , and their songs spoke of an anointed one who would champion his people in the lists and free them from oppression and enemy occupation . |
| 10 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 11 | Instead , he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege . |
| 12 | He is the one who 'll decide who is most worthy , so you must both go . |
| 13 | For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off . |
| 14 | The only one who will do it is left , he 'll be |
| 15 | Having faced life without the departed partner , they can look forward to fulfilling their dream of finding the one who will share their life in a more perfect union . |
| 16 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 17 | Mr William Waldegrave , Britain 's cabinet minister in charge of science , has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding ( see page 781 ) . |
| 18 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 19 | And to answer Kim 's other question , he is , in my estimation , the only one who can do it for me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Because you 're the only one who can do it , Howard . |
| 21 | The winner is the one who can out-bluff his opponent and keep his hand on the pad the longest . |
| 22 | " It 's me that 's the only one who can make you happy , Trist . |
| 23 | but you 're the only one who can make it work by practising it and by trying it . |
| 24 | Its teachers are not like travelling philosophers : they are co-operating labourers in God 's vineyard , and one plants while another waters , but God is the only one who can make anything grow ( 3:6 ) . |
| 25 | A real Christian is one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip Billy Graham |
| 26 | You 're the only one who can help me , you always were . |
| 27 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 28 | ‘ I am the only one who can help you , Ari . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Cameron , for God 's sake , I 'm the only one who can help you . |
| 30 | We 've got to find out exactly what happened before this boy — Hilary Frome , is that the name ? — died , and you 're the one who can help us . ’ |