Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [indef pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 2 | because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else |
| 3 | It was the only one for loyalist detainees and was already full . |
| 4 | Wealth and technological superiority are by far its greatest military assets , dying is not popular among either American soldiers or civilians , and until Gorbachev came along , a world war against the Soviets was the only one for which the Pentagon prepared . |
| 5 | The latter approach was the proper one for the law to adopt . |
| 6 | The chimney was a traditional one for the Lake District ; a straight , dry-stone cylinder tapering slightly inside as it went up . |
| 7 | The journey down the Grand Canal was a magical one for Meredith , in her warm glow of contentment . |
| 8 | The move to the stage was a logical one for Eliot , so many of whose poems have dramatic qualities . |
| 9 | Mr. Howell accepts that in the present case the governors did consult the local education authority on the admissions policy and that such policy was a reasonable one for a Roman Catholic school to adopt were it not for the duty to comply with parental preference imposed by section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 10 | In the darkness , arms around each other , they came to a decision , and though the decision was a relief for Chrissie in terms of her two kids , it was a sad one for the two adults . |
| 11 | The Levin came in two finishes : mine was a sort of toffee sunburst , and then there was a blonde one for about £10 more , presumably because the better grained wood went into blondes . |
| 12 | The next day was a long one for me . |
| 13 | This pattern of support was a dangerous one for the club . |
| 14 | Why had he returned to a milieu which he must have known was a dangerous one for him ? |
| 15 | The period chosen was a critical one for the British economy , emerging from the difficulties of the post-War period and embarking on a major period of expansion which saw the increase of real wages and affluence in British society . |
| 16 | He was a great one for singing because he 'd sing sea shanties and Irish songs . ’ |
| 17 | She was a nice lady , and when her husband was alive he was a great one for the shooting and the fishing , though there is not much fishing here on Moila . |
| 18 | She come here , she used to come here with her man , you ken they were tramps , but er she , she was a great one , she used to , she belonged to the West Highlands , and she was a great one for quoting the , the kind of |
| 19 | The , after the school I was never one for er I never was a great one for sport . |
| 20 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 21 | As she nodded he went on , ‘ Alison was a great one for desk diaries and pending files . |
| 22 | Tyrone Guthrie was a great one for comic business , and it was amazing to see how Michael picked it all up . |
| 23 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 24 | The experience was a salutary one for most of the pupils . |
| 25 | The interwar period was a difficult one for the world economy as a whole , characterized by widespread dislocation of , and fluctuations in , international trade . |
| 26 | Genscher recalled that the decision embodied in the treaty was a difficult one for all Germans , particularly the millions who had been expelled from their homes in the area annexed to Poland , but that the treaty surrendered nothing that had not been lost long ago . |
| 27 | LAST year was a dreadful one for Wall Street 's securities firms . |
| 28 | Indeed last year was a marked one for ’ sisters doing it for themselves ’ . |
| 29 | Given Rangers ' heavy schedule , most importantly next week 's European Champions League match with FC Brugge in Belgium , the sight of Steven departing the field was a depressing one for Rangers , certainly more so than the booking of Ian Ferguson before the interval . |
| 30 | it was a popular one for a talented and local boy . |