Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marine paused , as if to allow time for any of the three to speak out of turn . |
| 2 | He smiled thinly , as if expecting praise for his gesture of concern . |
| 3 | He paused , as if gathering breath for an ascent up a steep mountainside . |
| 4 | ‘ To those who compare Wokingham and Tredegar as if condemning Wokingham for daring to succeed , I say I want Tredegar and the valleys to understand and share more of Wokingham 's success . ’ |
| 5 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 6 | And as if to make amends for the rapacity of his Victorian forebears and their employers , he re-discovered species — notably the holly fern — long thought extinct in Snowdonia . |