Example sentences of "[noun pl] look [prep] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 2 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 3 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 4 | I want animals to look at because I like animals . |
| 5 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 6 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 7 | Page description languages like PostScript , Interpress or DDL are key elements to look for when it is important to transfer between various output devices . |
| 8 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 9 | The expressions on the faces of the displayed bodies suddenly change ; their faces contort and their limbs look as if their muscles are writhing below the surface of the skin . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not very clever , because it makes the parents look as if they 're idiots when they 're not — it says more about him than the people he 's speaking about . ’ |
| 11 | I mean the police riders look as if they 're enjoying it . |
| 12 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 13 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |
| 14 | These small rows of houses look as if they had been dumped down like baggage on a railway platform while the owner goes for a sandwich . |
| 15 | With the wisdom of hindsight it 's obvious that Mark Ring , who in his Pontypool days looked as if he might be the answer to all our no.10 prayers , was unfit and a liability in the match against Australia . |
| 16 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 17 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |
| 18 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 19 | As my father would try in vain to overtake ‘ a bloody idiot ’ on the A82 between Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy , there were two spectacular things to look at before we were wiped out as a family . |
| 20 | Favourites look as if they will have a good run at Catterick with Royal Greek , Black Spur , James Joy and Pyjamas in particular . |
| 21 | What features in the rocks do geologists look for when they hope to find natural gas deposits ? |
| 22 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 23 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 24 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 25 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 26 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 27 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’ |
| 29 | In flight , its little wings look as if they can barely hold it in the air . |
| 30 | Both in terms of price and utility , the players look as if they will be a major challenge to chip-based products . |