Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] look [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But suddenly they looked like two strangers . |
2 | Tomorrow we 'll have exclusive pictures of the RV8 on the road , but tonight we look at the background to the car that refused to die . |
3 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
4 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
5 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
6 | She had recovered her figure after the birth of both her children very quickly , but now it looked as if she was four months pregnant . |
7 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
8 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
9 | IBM will doubtless throw much of its considerable muscle behind OS/2 — but increasingly it looks as if OS/2 will become something of a specialised product , used for heavyweight purposes like running database servers . |
10 | But nowadays they look at me , see I 'm disabled , and then recognise me . |
11 | But then he looked at Chen and saw how his friend 's eyes urged him to take Karr 's hand . |
12 | thought erm that the tissue was growing but then I looked at it last night and it was a bit |
13 | Erm also if you look at entertainment , like James Saville calls himself Jimmy Saville , Terence Wogan is Terry Wogan , so but then you look at people like Charlie Chaplin , when he was doing his comedian role he was c he called himself Charlie Chaplin , and when he 's directing films he called himself Charles Chaplin , so maybe it 's all like a bit of a serious thing . |
14 | ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years . |
15 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
16 | But then she looked at me — and I was lost ! |
17 | She started to bristle , but then she looked at him and saw that his smile was open and good-humoured . |
18 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |