Example sentences of "[noun pl] look [prep] if [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I mean the police riders look as if they 're enjoying it . |
| 10 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 15 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Favourites look as if they will have a good run at Catterick with Royal Greek , Black Spur , James Joy and Pyjamas in particular . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 21 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 22 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 23 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’ |
| 25 | In flight , its little wings look as if they can barely hold it in the air . |
| 26 | Both in terms of price and utility , the players look as if they will be a major challenge to chip-based products . |
| 27 | None of your so-called friends look as if they have exactly been renowned for their brains , do they ? ’ |
| 28 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 29 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 30 | Some guys look as if they could be nice , but they could just as easily swing a baseball bat into someone 's face . |