Example sentences of "as [subord] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |
| 2 | Zeno 's head was lifted as if to search for scents on the air . |
| 3 | The referee glared at the crowd as if to ask for silence : how is a wrestler supposed to concentrate ? |
| 4 | The President made as if to reach for Trent 's hand but the effort was too great , or perhaps the shame . |
| 5 | as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony . |
| 6 | Ruthie , as if to compensate for her boss 's powers of vision , seemed to have every known complaint of the eyes short of blindness . |
| 7 | Subjects were then asked to carry out the following manoeuvres : ( 1 ) maximum voluntary contraction of the sphincter for 20 seconds ; ( 2 ) strain as if to defecate for at least five seconds ; and ( 3 ) increase intra-abdominal pressure by forcibly expiring against a resistance ( blowing up a party baloon ) . |