Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 2 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 3 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 4 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 5 | Personal survival entailed preparing for the possibility that it could n't be stopped . |