Example sentences of "be one for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I 'm one for erm like talking like some people do and wanting this and er you know . |
| 2 | David you allowed to hit him now , he 's only been one for thrty-eight years . |
| 3 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 4 | The year 1762 is one for all veterinarians to remember . |
| 5 | Here we may confront Lodge with his fellow critic-novelist , Anthony Burgess , who in Joysprick : an introduction to the language of James Joyce , proposes a division of novelists into " Class 1 " and " Class 2 A Class 1 novelist is one " in whose work language is a zero quality , transparent , unseductive , the overtones of connotation and ambiguity totally damped The Class 2 novelist is one for whom " ambiguities , puns and centrifugal connotations are to be enjoyed rather than regretted , and whose books , made out of words as much as characters and incidents , lose a great deal when adapted to a visual medium " . |
| 6 | Number two , here 's one for mum , the dahlia is popular in Britain , from which country did it originate ? |
| 7 | The operation to which Eliot had referred in his thank-you letter of 22 December was one for hernia , a trouble with which he had been afflicted from birth ( in fact he had a double hernia ) , and for which he was obliged to wear a truss . |