Example sentences of "as [subord] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was flexing and twisting his simian arms , as if limbering up for violence . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 5 | Outside the dark woods and fields were silent as if waiting patiently for the approach of winter . |
| 6 | Deities are sometimes shown with sword , spear , or shield ; sometimes the objects appear alone , as if standing in for an absent deity . |