Example sentences of "one who [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 3 | 10 March , p 675 ) a sentence in the fifth paragraph should have read : ‘ Far better , surely , to be remembered as one who spawned a wealth of speculations which were constructive and exciting . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You use your left hand ! ’ he said , slowly and clearly , in the tones of one who knew a thing or two about Islamic adab . |
| 5 | Alan Hinkes was reportedly one who got a lift and carried down , while Mick Fowler watched from the South East Gully . |
| 6 | My memory of Mr Meese 's participation was when , after all of that thing had broken , that he was the one who located a piece of paper in some office that indicated that there was additional money . |
| 7 | Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility . |
| 8 | Then he drew on his cigarette in an attempt to mask what Harry had already glimpsed : the shock of one who perceives a threat too late to evade it . |
| 9 | It was only the odd one who grew a shell like Timothy Gedge 's . |
| 10 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 11 | Different situations may require different styles of leadership and a good leader may be one who uses a combination of different styles . |
| 12 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Part of the answer is a party leader who has a collegiate , rather than presidential , style — one who signals a willingness to be disagreed with , and to hell with the press . |
| 15 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 16 | And by the same token , there is no such thing as an author , that is to say , one who originates a work of fiction ab nihilo . |
| 17 | With the horror of one who sees a nightmare come true , Breeze watched the chair slip backwards and glide with gathering momentum towards the broken railings . |
| 18 | Joan spoke breathlessly , tremulously — like one who sees a childhood tale given substance , a fairytale come of a sudden to life . |
| 19 | If two people are struck by the same brainwave , it will belong to the one who lodges a patent application first . |
| 20 | Queen 's Counsel , one who wears a silk gown as distinct from the stuff gown of an ordinary barrister . |
| 21 | Far better , surely , to be remembered as one who scorned a wealth of speculations which were constructive and exciting . |
| 22 | Marc was the one who hitched a lift . |
| 23 | The mathematician Thomas Hood [ q.v. ] was one who acknowledged a debt to Smith . |
| 24 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 25 | Not only is the Spirit the one who convicts a man of sin : it is he , and only he , who can make Jesus attractive . |
| 26 | Taking a chance , the Doctor stepped out of hiding and descended the gangplank of the Raubvogel quickly , but with the confident air of one who has a job to do and is doing it . |
| 27 | The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it . |
| 28 | Now I was one who saved a lot myself , and we had some very good holidays . |