Example sentences of "[art] [noun] it looked [conj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 2 | When I saw the negative it looked as though she had a dog 's head on her shoulders . |
| 3 | The shelves towered above me and from where I sat on the floor it looked as though all of my toys were staring straight at me . |
| 4 | Inside the hotel it looked as though the nine-hundred-day siege of World War Two was still going on . |
| 5 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 6 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 7 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 8 | For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system . |
| 9 | For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down . |
| 10 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 11 | Friendly representations on Dryden 's behalf got the ban lifted ( Cleomenes opened on 16 April ) , but with an ugly gap threatened in the theatrical diary , for a while it looked as though The Fairy Queen would have to be brought forward . |
| 12 | For a while it looked as though Caledonian Mining , the Nottinghamshire-based firm which the consortium beat for the pit , would be involved . |