Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had talked of going home for years ; yet excuses came up for delaying till next year and the year after . |
| 2 | I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire . |
| 3 | Victory tomorrow would offer United compensation for losing in last season 's final to Sheffield Wednesday and would fill the last gap in the Old Trafford honours board . |
| 4 | Peter Scudamore is on record as saying that Sabin du Loir is one of the best horses he has ever ridden , and could have gone a long way towards towards justifying that high opinion but for falling in last year 's King George at Kempton when holding a healthy lead . |
| 5 | And it 's close to Oxford 's Blackbird Leys Estate , notorious for joyriding since last September 's trouble . |
| 6 | The estate has been notorious for joyriding following last year 's troubles . |
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