Example sentences of "looked [prep] [conj] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 2 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 3 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 4 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 5 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 6 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 7 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |