Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
| 4 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 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 . |