Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the children had been brought by their parents , as if for a special outing or a treat . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Standing at the door with her knuckles on her hips , she bade me recline on the high wall-bed , as if for a medical inspection . |
| 4 | Pockets were emptied of loose change , parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent . |
| 5 | Aristotle derives it from " phallic songs " , which were a common constituent of Greek fertility ritual and would have been sung to or for a particular fertility god : this would usually , though not perhaps invariably , have been Dionysus . ) |