Example sentences of "one for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a great one for singing because he 'd sing sea shanties and Irish songs . ’ |
| 2 | If you are not one for counting calories or fat units , then a diet that involves these things will eventually get broken . |
| 3 | ‘ But I am not one for settling for mid-season mediocrity — it 's all or nothing for me . |
| 4 | Erm and it 's a birthday issue and and a quite an important one for setting up for the Euros and the mail action . |
| 5 | He was a r a r a rare one for getting little sharp digs in was n't he ? |
| 6 | Collie Curran is n't one for taking solace in moral victories , but he said : ‘ Had we had a full team it would certainly have been much closer . |
| 7 | The manager or designer of the office has to consider the various sub-systems he requires ; one for dealing with enquiries , one for handling money , one for receiving new information , one for confirming orders and so on . |
| 8 | Address the envelope to the News Editor and make sure that the address is the correct one for receiving copy . |
| 9 | The manager or designer of the office has to consider the various sub-systems he requires ; one for dealing with enquiries , one for handling money , one for receiving new information , one for confirming orders and so on . |
| 10 | Hope these will come in useful ; I got 2 of as many as I could , so you could have one for handling and one for display — or for pinning up to show both sides . |
| 11 | One Sicilian peasant kills another one for seducing his wife . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not one for squealing like but it was Michael . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 14 | The law as a profession is regarded as a difficult one for hearing people , and not many manage to become solicitors ; still fewer get called before the Bar to become barristers . |
| 15 | It 's like at work erm Mark put two speakers one for listening and one for hearing |
| 16 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |
| 17 | At this point Mr Wilson the Strict Deputy Head arrived ( every school with more than one Deputy Head has a ‘ Strict ’ one for telling you off and keeping order in assemblies , and a ‘ Friendly ’ one for helping you when you 've been bullied ) . |
| 18 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |
| 19 | All the same , she owed him one for slapping her bottom . |
| 20 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 21 | The argument is that the postclassical perspective is a relatively more useful one for accounting for , and understanding the manipulation of , criminal action . |
| 22 | The pitch , without a blade of grass on it , looked such a good one for batting that the West Indies clearly felt that seven batsmen , even given the recent fallibility of their top order , were unnecessary . |
| 23 | I 'm not one for imbuing phrases with a coy , knowing wink in their gait , but at the same time there is a meticulousness about these particular performances ( the Sixth is slightly better in this respect ) , which prevents the music from leaping off the page as quite it should . |
| 24 | There are five of them , a name and address database , a mail merger , an address label printer , one for searching within a database and an automatic report generator — again for obtaining information from a database . |
| 25 | Just as you have a routine for looking after your skin , so you need one for looking after your hair . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not much of one for looking at things , ’ Harrison said and Hope 's heart went out to him . |
| 27 | The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory . |
| 28 | The ones you need for plumbing include a small one for tiny grub screws ( on taps , for example ) , a medium-size one ( 100m , say ) for screws on WC cisterns and a large one for screwing into walls . |
| 29 | A blank one for saving your own patterns is supplied with the Design Controller . |
| 30 | At this point Mr Wilson the Strict Deputy Head arrived ( every school with more than one Deputy Head has a ‘ Strict ’ one for telling you off and keeping order in assemblies , and a ‘ Friendly ’ one for helping you when you 've been bullied ) . |