Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] if [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the farm butter , it is being borne away by the purchasers in the great baskets which look as if they might have been used by the Scarlet Pimpernel to smuggle refugee aristos out of Paris . |
| 2 | It is a well-established phenomenon that nonwords which sound like actual words ( known as " pseudo-homophones " ) tend to gain slower responses than those which look as if they may be words , but do not sound like any . |
| 3 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 4 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 5 | He said you gave marvellous picnics — and you look as if you would ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You look as if you can not spell . |
| 7 | I 'll stay an hour , you look as if you can only move at a crawl . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a cup . ’ |
| 9 | You look as if you could do with a hot drink , and as a matter of fact , so could 1 . |
| 10 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a bit of help … ’ |
| 11 | Come on ; you look as if you could do with this coffee . ’ |
| 12 | You look as if you could do with collapsing on a sofa . ’ |
| 13 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |
| 14 | Mick Jagger , David Mellor , Michael Winner , and many other middle-aged , ego-tripping men who look as if they 'd need a Zimmer frame to get a leg-up and a miracle to get it over . |
| 15 | Most Land Rover body panels will fit if they look as if they will fit . |