Example sentences of "and look [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 2 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 3 | It is a double row of fine , tall and expansive Victorian terraced villas and looks as if it is straight out of London . |
| 4 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 5 | he growls at Reggie when he comes up to say ta ta in the morning , if Reggie puts his arm under him , and looks as if he 's gon na move him off the bed he , he 'll , he 'll growl |
| 6 | They were short and deformed and looked as if they were made of rubber . |
| 7 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 8 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 9 | Jacqui stood up and looked as if she was about to hit him . |
| 10 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 11 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 12 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 13 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 14 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 15 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |
| 16 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 17 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 18 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 19 | Archie shuffled his feet and looked as if he 'd like to vanish up his parlour chimney . |
| 20 | When he looked back , the Punk had taken the woman 's straw hat off and looked as if he might be about to eat it . |
| 21 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 22 | But Hadrill was carrying a huge score and looked as if he took opera seriously . |
| 23 | He lifted a hand , and looked as if he was going to touch her cheek , and then dropped it . |
| 24 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 25 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 26 | The entrance through the surrounding wall stood high and splendid , arched in the Spanish manner , and the vast wrought-iron gates stood open , ready to close behind them and looking as if they would . |
| 27 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 28 | Lalage looked into her drink , swirling and looking as if she saw money in the bottom of her glass . |
| 29 | Near the Clonmacnoise entrance , the river had overflowed into the fields , beside a misshapen castle tower that perched on a hummock , balanced at an angle and looking as if it were about to fall over . |
| 30 | He would pop in and out of the office now and then , fulfilling his supervisory role and looking as if he were a man with an important but very secret mission . |