Example sentences of "[adj] and look as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 2 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 3 | Oliver liked things to be finished and shiny and to look as if they cost a lot . |
| 4 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 5 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 6 | They were short and deformed and looked as if they were made of rubber . |
| 7 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 8 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 9 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |