Example sentences of "[Wh det] looked as [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian .
2 He was a stocky fifty-eight-year-old with grey hair and a small goatee beard which looked as if it had been stuck on to his chin with glue .
3 A flower-print dress was draped across the back of the chair , and there was a brown battered suitcase on the floor at her feet , which looked as if it had been pulled out from beneath the bed .
4 The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies .
5 She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body .
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