Example sentences of "be one for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never been one for doctors , and hospitals were for visiting other people , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Mike , of Bamford , Derbys — a Blades fan for 50 years — said : ‘ I 've never been one for holidays . |
| 7 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 11 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 12 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
| 13 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 14 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 've never been one for tea or coffee after seven o'clock . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 17 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 19 | Of course if a number of horses are being fed in a paddock , their feedbins should be spaced well apart and there should be one for every horse . |
| 20 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 21 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 22 | It will undoubtedly be one for public debate , and rightly so . |
| 23 | One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail . |
| 24 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 25 | There has to be one for you , even if your idea of what is plausible may be more , or less , cautious than mine ! |
| 26 | Even if there is no minimum on the selling side , there will be one for reinvestment into a trust . |
| 27 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 28 | There ought to be one for project video erm we ca n't do that until we can show a book . |
| 29 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 30 | It is one for which , as we have seen , neither Morgan nor Engels presented any evidence . |