Example sentences of "as [subord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had waterskied , swooping round the northern end of Inch Island , making great arcs along the shore , as if looking for something . |
| 32 | All three glanced about the dockside , as if looking for somebody else . |
| 33 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 34 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 35 | They each , the loos , as if built for giants ; like small rooms , that you might walk inside , and gigantic pans . |
| 36 | Zeno 's head was lifted as if to search for scents on the air . |
| 37 | Kandinskaya licked her lips as if stalling for time ; Jezrael could see her imminence paling as she strove for greater calm . |
| 38 | Creed was looking into the sky as if scanning for omens . |
| 39 | Left leg straight , foot still braced against the ground , heel raised , toes gouged into the litter of leaves as if scrabbling for a hold . |
| 40 | All the clothes were unused looking and old , as if kept for years in jars of formaldehyde . |
| 41 | The referee glared at the crowd as if to ask for silence : how is a wrestler supposed to concentrate ? |
| 42 | The President made as if to reach for Trent 's hand but the effort was too great , or perhaps the shame . |
| 43 | ‘ Ach away , granda , ’ Ranald said , stretching his angular arms into the blue of the sky as if reaching for a star . |
| 44 | He began walking towards it and she saw that he had one hand inside his jacket , as if reaching for something . |
| 45 | She took my arm , fingers digging through several layers of clothing , as if reaching for the bone . |
| 46 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 47 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 48 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony . |
| 51 | Ruthie , as if to compensate for her boss 's powers of vision , seemed to have every known complaint of the eyes short of blindness . |
| 52 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 53 | Josie glanced over the arrangements , as if checking for anything that she may have missed . |
| 54 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 55 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 56 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 57 | Subjects were then asked to carry out the following manoeuvres : ( 1 ) maximum voluntary contraction of the sphincter for 20 seconds ; ( 2 ) strain as if to defecate for at least five seconds ; and ( 3 ) increase intra-abdominal pressure by forcibly expiring against a resistance ( blowing up a party baloon ) . |
| 58 | Without moving he watched McQuaid struggle from the car and then stand leaning on the open door as if waiting for someone to appear . |
| 59 | There was an uneasy pause , as if waiting for Mona , at the beginning of the Third Mystery . |
| 60 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |