Example sentences of "to look [conj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went to look and though it was pretty dark I could see enough . |
| 2 | Seven minutes from the end of this Littlewoods Cup third-round replay , it was beginning to look as though they should accord the same honour to the current Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal . |
| 3 | But it began to look as though they were destined to attend at least part of the party . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no need for her to look as though she does , ’ said Lili . |
| 5 | Had she really managed to look as though she were still holding together ? |
| 6 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 7 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 8 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 9 | I was sixteen , the year of ‘ O ’ levels , and ii was beginning to look as though I would gain a respectable number of passes which would send me on my way to art school and my chosen career as a painter . |
| 10 | If I get something on one of them to s to look as though I 've |
| 11 | However , the margarine adverts having got to me , and the latest atherosclerosis story beginning to look as though it might be true , I succumbed to the temptation of having my lipids ( blood fats , including cholesterol ) done . |
| 12 | Another special design shape is the spray ( see pp. 114–5 ) , and if you wanted one that was lighter in feel , you could create a spray of flowers with the stalks still showing as though they were an unwrapped bouquet , or a spray made to look as though it was a sprig from a bush or tree , with some flowers intertwined with the leaves . |
| 13 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 15 | Putting his hands in his pockets , and trying to look as though he did this every day , he fixed his eyes on the target . |
| 16 | ‘ James was made to look as though he was waiting in the wings , to pounce on his fairytale princess . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ James was made to look as though he was waiting in the wings to pounce on his fairytale princess . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ James was made to look as though he was waiting in the wings , to pounce on his fairytale princess . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And it 's beginning to look as though he was killed in the environs of the Cathedral . |
| 20 | He also managed to look as though he were in shock , in pain and in hysterics at one and the same time . |
| 21 | You want her to look as though you care , do n't you ? |
| 22 | It was important not to look as though you wanted people to think you were holy . |
| 23 | Even in the office you had to look as though you were n't working . |