Example sentences of "[prep] if [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trainer sat up in his chair and looked about the table as if searching for something to throw at her . |
| 2 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 3 | The man was alone ; he looked alternately towards the house and then down , as if searching for something on the dashboard . |
| 4 | She looked into his eyes , as if searching for something in them ; her white face made the dark , heavy-browed eyes look lost and empty , and after a while he could not look into them anymore , and had to smile and look away . |
| 5 | Adam slowed to a crawl , as if stopping for him . |
| 6 | All three glanced about the dockside , as if looking for somebody else . |
| 7 | They had waterskied , swooping round the northern end of Inch Island , making great arcs along the shore , as if looking for something . |
| 8 | He began walking towards it and she saw that he had one hand inside his jacket , as if reaching for something . |
| 9 | For a moment he paused at the threshold , but then turned back inside , taking in the sight of an ivory chess set , a small telescope , a number of small fluted carvings , and the fine hangings adorning the wall , observing everything with a cocked head as if listening for something . |
| 10 | Ruthie , as if to compensate for her boss 's powers of vision , seemed to have every known complaint of the eyes short of blindness . |
| 11 | Josie glanced over the arrangements , as if checking for anything that she may have missed . |
| 12 | Uncle Albert just looked at her , as if waiting for her to go on . |
| 13 | Without moving he watched McQuaid struggle from the car and then stand leaning on the open door as if waiting for someone to appear . |
| 14 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 15 | As soon as Felicity had left , she let go of him and they stood side by side , as if waiting for someone to photograph and frame them , listening to the slow ascent of Felicity up the stairs . |
| 16 | For long moments she simply sat , as if waiting for someone to tell her what to do , her own power of reasoning immobilised . |
| 17 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 18 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 19 | She paused for a moment , biting her lip as if fighting for her composure . |