Example sentences of "as [subord] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 2 | Refrigerators could hardly grow tail fins but they acquired streamlining , a sort of bulbous teardrop shape as if poised for take-off from the kitchen floor . |
| 3 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 4 | They each , the loos , as if built for giants ; like small rooms , that you might walk inside , and gigantic pans . |
| 5 | All the clothes were unused looking and old , as if kept for years in jars of formaldehyde . |
| 6 | Although Conrad does not use conventional similes of the kind " X is like Y " , he uses a range of constructions which express or imply similitude : " resembling some mysterious system … " ( 1 ) , as if abandoned for ever . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |