Example sentences of "be one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh she 's always been a good daughter up till now , I 'll grant her that , I 've never been one to just blame the girl , Douglas , I blame the boy too . |
| 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 | ‘ I would have been one with you in marches , burning books and so on , ’ he said . |
| 20 | There had only ever been one with whom he had been at ease . |
| 21 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 22 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 23 | That was a fairly big one and I think there may have been one at Stromness too . |
| 24 | Well the cooper the cooperage they would have been one at , co 's cooperage and then there were one at 's . |
| 25 | And he did but then he was a lot older and he eventually stopped and er there would have been one at Woodhouse in Burness . |
| 26 | Was it true that she had been one among others who had put up bail for Wullie Robertson ? |
| 27 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 28 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 29 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 30 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |