Example sentences of "one who [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 And I must admit with Ken , Ken is is least to blame because he just puts the orders on , Pauline is the one who schedules it , but the scheduling is just the swannee .
2 ‘ The one who thinks everything started with sex . ’
3 ‘ Dotty is n't the only one who thinks you 're talented .
4 Masochism is a defence against unacknowledged sadism and masochists will , in the terms of the unconscious ‘ fit ’ between partners , tend to marry not necessarily a conscious sadist , but often one who helps them to maintain a masochistic role .
5 And , when they were , the was panda was about to leave , you know , he 's all ready and the prostitute thought well well he ca n't realise so she got th , her dictionary out and looked up pand , looked for prostitute one who avails herself for money .
6 Well , I 'm the one who gets everyone else going — it starts the discussion .
7 Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies .
8 He may agree , and he is often the one who decides what issues will be dealt with and when .
9 You must always be the one who decides what to do and when .
10 And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next .
11 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 .
12 I feel it 's all wrong that the single one in the family should be the one who does everything .
13 he 's got another one who does they hear his screams sort of thing put its in
14 Yes but until you are the one who does it you have no comprehension of what is involved .
15 And Christ is the one who meets us here ,
16 So you 've got ta be the one who tells him .
17 You do n't want to be the one who tells your boss that er a production line has broken down again or y'know that they 've failed to meet their sales targets for the third month running , whatever it is , okay ?
18 Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions .
19 Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The one who takes you and makes you do the wicked thing .
23 The one who submits he calls the ‘ slave ’ and the one to whom that person submits him/herself becomes the ‘ master ’ .
24 The teacher occasionally provides a commentary which anticipates the kind of adventures in which the followers may become involved : ‘ Our standard has fallen into enemy hands but the one who guards it is now asleep .
25 She 's the one who dyes it .
26 Within this trickle of a song , Morrissey defends his much maligned plagiarism with a comical air of one who considers himself , quite rightly , to be above such charges .
27 You 're the one who says we can stick anything if we know where we 're going . ’
28 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 ) .
29 ‘ There 's no one who bears you a grudge ? ’
30 You 're the one who fills my head and my heart .
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