Example sentences of "did not look [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Olivia did not look forward to the interview .
2 Miranda did not look forward to this .
3 I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all .
4 I did not look forward to this at all .
5 Holly did not look away from his work .
6 ’ There were tears in his eyes , and he did not look away .
7 I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag .
8 He did not look particularly inspired at the start of the day , but survived to make the semi-final where he met his old rival , Ben Spijkers , of the Netherlands .
9 THE small , middle-aged woman sitting alongside me in the rowdy ringside throng did not look particularly important .
10 All in all , as Reagan prepared to take office the omens for a successful presidency did not look particularly good .
11 Clara did not look best pleased to see her .
12 He did not look beyond , let alone ‘ below ’ , that .
13 She risked putting the lamp on and was pleased to see that Ana 's feet did not look as bad as her own felt .
14 A survey of the 2,000 or so companies quoted on The Stock Exchange , it showed that less than 5% of executive directors were women ( 428 ) , and that the future did not look much better — when the numbers of men and women in management and on the board were added together , the ratio was one woman to every 35 men .
15 He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face .
16 But , on a slow wicket , their partnership of 97 used up 29 overs , and 217 off 55 overs did not look enough .
17 We did not look specifically at extracontractual referrals and the extent to which payment for these was refused by purchasing authorities , but there is no evidence from our results that the contracting system affected out of district referrals from this group of practices to any great extent .
18 ‘ Come along ! ’ snapped Miss Harker in the most understanding snap it was possible to make — she was acutely aware of Prentice though she did not look directly at him .
19 He did not look directly at me .
20 He did not look directly at her .
21 It did not look abroad for its inspirations .
22 ‘ I watched him play against Liverpool and he scored a fine goal and did not look far short of his true form . ’
23 She appeared more mature , bore herself in a different manner but did not look more than six or seven years older than her earlier self .
24 Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground .
25 Although , to his eyes , Bath did not look so very different , the woman across the table did .
26 When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) .
27 He did not look so much like Francis today .
28 Tonight he did not look so stern , and there was a softness in his fine , dark eyes .
29 She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile .
30 Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing .
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