Example sentences of "as [conj] look " in BNC.

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1 Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket .
2 Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom .
3 Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place .
4 as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position .
5 John Harbour , as if looking into a mirror , leaned chummily against Babs Osborne and stared adoringly at the camera .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark .
9 He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit .
10 The blackjack tail as if looking for a target ,
11 They had waterskied , swooping round the northern end of Inch Island , making great arcs along the shore , as if looking for something .
12 All three glanced about the dockside , as if looking for somebody else .
13 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 .
14 Coffin noticed that his clothes , like his mother 's , were expensive and beautiful ; the boy wore them well , as if looking good was second nature to him .
15 She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor .
16 He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’
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