Example sentences of "as [subord] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay on his back for a few moments as he always did , then turned onto his right side , arranging himself as if for sleep . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 3 | Jack too felt a painful void — ‘ one remembers his old happy days , especially his puppyhood , with an ache ’ , and for Minto it was grief ‘ as if for a human being ’ . |
| 4 | Until now , Fenway Court has always retained the feeling of a private home , enhanced by such domestic touches as little vases of flowers , evening concerts and even a table laid out as if for tea ; it never seemed wholly incredible that Mrs Gardner herself would suddenly stroll through the door . |
| 5 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 6 | During the active growing season , prepare the rooting area as if for a seedbed and scope out a gentle dip in which the branch will lie comfortably . |
| 7 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 8 | The empath looked up at Fox as if for help , genuinely puzzled as to how to express his feeling in words . |
| 9 | Dorothy looked wildly around her as if for an escape — but nothing was restraining her . |
| 10 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 11 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 12 | Lumberjack had looked up at him , as if for approval , his tongue dangling from his jaws . |
| 13 | She stood up and scanned the room , as if for inspiration . |
| 14 | The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital . |
| 15 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 16 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 17 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 18 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 19 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 20 | However , light can be focused and distant objects seen clearly if the ciliary muscles contract ( as if for near vision ) . |
| 21 | A high-backed iron chair caged with copper filigree and equipped with adjustable iron helmet , as if for crushing the occupant 's skull , stood vacant . |
| 22 | So set the carriage as if for stocking stitch ( without the sinker plate of course ) and pass the carriage across the needles . |
| 23 | In the robin ( A ) the ‘ arm ’ beneath the feathers is extended as if for flight , and folded within the ‘ wrist ’ well up under the cheek . |
| 24 | He thought the houses , on the road , were low-set , as if for pygmies . |
| 25 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 26 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 27 | Afterwards treat as if for shock with rest and a sweet drink . |
| 28 | Some of the children had been brought by their parents , as if for a special outing or a treat . |
| 29 | Her neck rested on the top curve of the seat and this lifted her mouth as if for kissing . |
| 30 | She looked to the young man as if for reassurance , and he smiled back and nodded for Ellie to go on in , which she did without , much to her surprise , suddenly finding herself sitting upright at home in bed , clutching her thin bedding around her and wondering how her mind could imagine such things . |