Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been one for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’
3 ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge .
4 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 .
5 She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it .
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