Example sentences of "for [pron] [conj] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , he kept asking himself , did a woman , trained in the art of healing , who had been a naval medical officer and not somebody 's wife , suddenly volunteer for something that was inevitably going to be highly dangerous — and almost certainly involve her in killing — at close quarters ? |
| 2 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 3 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 4 | Weather was no deterrent for him and was never allowed to interfere with his plans … . |
| 5 | Fleury , too , continued to grieve for her and was now composing a poem in which her little ghost came tripping along the ramparts sniffing flowers , unperturbed by the flying cannon balls ( it was not a very good poem ) . |