Example sentences of "look as [subord] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |
| 2 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 3 | ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’ |
| 4 | They were short and deformed and looked as if they were made of rubber . |
| 5 | Daphne 's huge bosom and vast posterior looked as if they were about to burst from her too-tight black costume ; Rose , small-boned and slender , looked remarkably young and pretty in an aquamarine bikini that suited her fair colouring . |
| 6 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 7 | Jesus , the man looked as if he was in mourning . |
| 8 | Artai looked as if he was suddenly bored by the whole interlude . |
| 9 | The maths master looked as if he was about to have another revelation . |
| 10 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 11 | The watchman looked as if he was about to burst into tears . |
| 12 | He lifted a hand , and looked as if he was going to touch her cheek , and then dropped it . |
| 13 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 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 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 16 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |
| 17 | The open-windowed room looked as if it was quite far away from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 18 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 19 | His dark blue blazer looked as if it was brand new , as did the white shirt with a very faint grey stripe and the steel blue tie . |
| 20 | The village looked as if it was dying . |
| 21 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 22 | She was neither young nor old , a tinker ; her hair , as with so many of them , looked as if it were bleached , while her skin was dark with outdoor living . |
| 23 | The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn . |
| 24 | This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment , as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook . |
| 25 | The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease . |
| 26 | Jacqui stood up and looked as if she was about to hit him . |
| 27 | One woman looked as if she was carrying ice-skates , and maybe that meant that the lake should be frozen . |
| 28 | My mum looked as if she was in the middle of being kidnapped . |
| 29 | So if it 's green it just looks as if nothing 's there which is a bit of a nuisance . |
| 30 | Looks as if somebody was sort of passed over to the other |