Example sentences of "one who [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The one who thinks everything started with sex . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 'm the one who gets everyone else going — it starts the discussion . |
| 3 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 4 | I feel it 's all wrong that the single one in the family should be the one who does everything . |
| 5 | You see th at every station , every depot , on British Rail , there were always one man thrown up as being the one who knew everything . |
| 6 | For the one who encourages nothing but genuine feelings of peace , love and goodwill to all his fellow creatures , generally finds that peace and harmony follow him wherever he goes . |
| 7 | His was the party 's explanation : that Stalin was the one who distorted everything , and that Leninist ideals of socialism should be reinstated . |
| 8 | He did not know of one who had anything to thank the Flemyngs for , or old Menzies at the Castle . |
| 9 | Doreen was one who expected everything , yet gave little in return , she decided . |
| 10 | A fat woman , too , of a certain age , one who forgives everything and looks over us when we sleep — who is , let's face it , more like a mother than a lover ? |
| 11 | As you start the action , Jim is the only one who knows anything about it . |
| 12 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 13 | All the pop songs in vogue at the time were sung communally — songs such as those from the award-winning film , Hong Gaoliang ( Red Sorghum ) and the virtual national anthem of youth during 1988 , ‘ Yi Wu Suo You ’ , ‘ The One Who Has Nothing ’ . |
| 14 | But if , as William Empson ( no ally ) believed , Lewis was ‘ the best read man of his generation , one who read everything and remembered everything he read ’ , there is something a little disappointing in such a man rejoicing in the limitations of his sympathy . |