Example sentences of "be [indef pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there is no complete autonomy for the Spirit , just as there had been none for Jesus . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 5 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 6 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 7 | But Mike , of Bamford , Derbys — a Blades fan for 50 years — said : ‘ I 've never been one for holidays . |
| 8 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 9 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 10 | I 've never been one for crediting animals with human feelings , but the expression on that dog 's face definitely said " Stop laughing and get me out of here " . |
| 11 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 12 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 13 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
| 14 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 15 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 've never been one for tea or coffee after seven o'clock . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 18 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 19 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 20 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 21 | There appeared to be nothing for him to do but make his way back to the Inn on the Point , collect his own belongings and return to London . |
| 22 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
| 23 | If all were clear , undilemmatic and utterly consistent for the members of a society , there would be nothing for them to argue about , and thereby nothing about which to deliberate . |
| 24 | Work hard , get in more business but there will be nothing for you at the end . |
| 25 | And what does say about that ? says that we will keep the level of charges down in the now privately owned companies providing public utilities so there 'll be nothing for dividends . |
| 26 | ‘ There 'll be nothing for hours . |
| 27 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |
| 28 | It was a big expensive car , must be someone for one of the neighbours . |
| 29 | It was more likely to be someone for whom they had no personal feeling . |
| 30 | There seemed to be plenty for all . |