Example sentences of "who look [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy found her very elegant and said of her ( I am told ) : ‘ She 's a young woman who looks as if she had never had to wash her gloves . ’ |
| 2 | So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave . |
| 3 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 4 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 5 | He is a big likeable feller who looks as if he belongs in a jazzband playing the stringbass . |
| 6 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | Then there are some pathetic , weedy looking swots , inadequately equipped and unsuitably dressed , in gaberdine raincoats and Oxford shoes , unwieldy packs all done up with string , who look as if they have never walked farther than a hundred yards at any time in their lives . |
| 11 | There was a good turn-out of dads-to-be : professional types , city types , manual types and one or two dads who looked as if they were still , well … lads . |
| 12 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 13 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 14 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 15 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 16 | A couple of lads who looked as if they were moonlighting from a Youth Training Scheme were trying to reglaze the window from the inside , underneath the plastic so their haircuts did n't get damp . |
| 17 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 18 | It was Hibs and not Rangers who looked as if they were the ones holding something back for a bigger midweek game to come . |
| 19 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 20 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 21 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 22 | But his eye was caught by a painting on the wall of one of Tess 's ancestors , a proud fierce woman , who looked as if she hated and wanted to deceive all men . |
| 23 | Greg was assisting the woman they had heard moaning and who looked as if she 'd dislocated her jaw while David was with the pilot . |
| 24 | Feeling increasingly nervous as his appointment drew near , Morris was ushered into a vast boardroom , where the door was flung open by ‘ a giant of a man who looked as if he had been fed on rum all his life ’ : . |
| 25 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 26 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 27 | I picked a man who looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you sure , though , ’ the man continued , desperately , ‘ a fine young woman , rather on the thin side but a lady , no doubting it , and a terrible young scoundrel , a thief of a man who looked as if he should be hanged . ’ |
| 29 | A skinny man who looked as if he did n't sleep nights . |
| 30 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |