Example sentences of "and look as [subord] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 2 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 3 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 4 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 5 | But Hadrill was carrying a huge score and looked as if he took opera seriously . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 10 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |