Example sentences of "[to-vb] it look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't use a varnish finish unless the door is very well protected by a porch and you are prepared for regular and frequent maintenance to keep it looking good . |
| 2 | The money raised at this event is put towards the running of the church and things needed for the village to keep it looking attractive . |
| 3 | I mean if you belong to a church you do something to make it look tidy do n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 5 | I staggered back , partly to make it look good on the off chance there was somebody watching and partly because letting go of the winch had put me off balance . |
| 6 | miles away , off campus , you know , they have n't got to make it look good |
| 7 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 8 | The trick apparently is to make it look ordinary without it actually being so . |
| 9 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 10 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 11 | To make it look right so |
| 12 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 13 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 14 | But the effect on the host warbler is not , of course , just to make it look ridiculous — the bird that rears the parasitic fledgling will fail to rear young of its own . |
| 15 | She poked a finger into the luggage beneath her eyes , stretching the skin , trying to make it look young again . |
| 16 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I should get one that yeah page ten , it says return to your letter and essentially i it tells you all the various formatting options that you want to apply to your document to make it look neat and tidy . |
| 18 | To make it look light and fresh , the swiss roll has to be made from scratch in Alan 's well equipped kitchen . |
| 19 | No effort had been made to make it look homely at all . |
| 20 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 21 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 22 | and it would also enable you to quickly and easily do something on the erm on the , on the private functions night to make it look different . |
| 23 | What sort of face did he have then to make it look surprised ? |