Example sentences of "as if [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth opened and closed , as if gasping for breath , the dying struggle of an animal bleeding out its life through the sacrificial cut . |
| 2 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
| 3 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |
| 4 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 6 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 7 | Joanna looked at Isabel as if hoping for enlightenment . |
| 8 | Changed , he returned into the lounge to find her standing at the window again , as if watching for the assassin 's return . |
| 9 | The trainer sat up in his chair and looked about the table as if searching for something to throw at her . |
| 10 | He started to pat his pockets , as if searching for an ID . |
| 11 | Nicholson dismissed the warders , returning to the window for a moment as if searching for something out in the windswept yard . |
| 12 | He tilts his head and gazes into my face as if searching for the answer . |
| 13 | The man was alone ; he looked alternately towards the house and then down , as if searching for something on the dashboard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He paused , as if searching for the right words . |
| 16 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 17 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 18 | He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast . |
| 19 | ‘ Guy is not a yuppie , ’ Charles remonstrated , in the voice he reserved for humouring his little sister when she was being most irritating , ‘ He just happens to be a very successful … ’ her brother hesitated a fraction as if searching for the most appropriate description ‘ … entrepreneur . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Adam slowed to a crawl , as if stopping for him . |
| 22 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 23 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 24 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 25 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 26 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 27 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 28 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 29 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 30 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |