Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People began throwing suggestions at him , some kindly , some less so , as the same shops came zinging past for the third and fourth times . |
| 2 | THE wheels of justice began turning yesterday for the former Bolivian Interior Minister , Mr Luis Arce Gomez , when he appeared before a Miami magistrate following his arrest and deportation from Bolivia . |
| 3 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 4 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 5 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 6 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 7 | Scheer continued steaming westward for a further 20 minutes ; and then , for reasons never adequately explained , turned cast again . |
| 8 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 9 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |