Example sentences of "if [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 2 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 3 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 4 | But these murders were crafted in the human soul and decided upon by the human mind even if carried out for malicious , devilish purposes . |
| 5 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 6 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 7 | But it would be ala I think people would be alarmed if turn out for central government dropped to forty percent . |
| 8 | Deities are sometimes shown with sword , spear , or shield ; sometimes the objects appear alone , as if standing in for an absent deity . |
| 9 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 10 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 11 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |
| 12 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |