Example sentences of "one [Wh pn] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next . |
| 2 | Here is a man who one can readily imagine as a commanding general and an overpowering lover , also as quick-tempered , easily aroused to jealousy , one who declaims his Farewell to Arms with the appropriate panache and is terrifying in his Act 3 outbursts . |
| 3 | Contempt , coursing like some seam of metal through his words and their meaning , the contempt felt by one who knew his own powers for one who clearly did not . |
| 4 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 5 | And he commanded and requested the Christians that they should show great honour to the Moors , and respect them , and greet them when they met : and the Moors thanked the Cid greatly for the honour which the Christians did them , saying that they had never seen so good a man , nor one so honourable , nor one who had his people under such obedience . |
| 6 | Of the two thieves crucified with Jesus , it is only to the one who expresses his penitence that Jesus responds , ‘ I promise you that today you will be in Paradise with me ’ ( Luke 23:39–43 ) . |
| 7 | As Easton 's section police see it , a competent member of the RUC is one who uses his or her common sense . |
| 8 | The one who cut his hand |
| 9 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 10 | The Abbe Gerard was a compassionate , charitable man but one who liked his claret . |
| 11 | I have the files … thieves , one who took a knife to a postmaster 's throat , one who buggered a Pioneer intake class , one who caught his wife screwing the rent official and took off half her head with a hammer-he should work well . |
| 12 | A ‘ good ’ lawyer is therefore one who accepts his client 's desired outcome as his own objective . |
| 13 | You know , the one who broke his leg . |
| 14 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |