Example sentences of "look as [subord] [pron] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 2 | Cheltenham had lost their last five games and despite creating some excellent chances , looked as if they might lose their sixth . |
| 3 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 4 | He was very apologetic , and looked as if he might be taken away and hanged for the delay . |
| 5 | GEORGE Carey has always looked as if he might be more comfortable in a cloth cap than a mitre . |
| 6 | With the wisdom of hindsight it 's obvious that Mark Ring , who in his Pontypool days looked as if he might be the answer to all our no.10 prayers , was unfit and a liability in the match against Australia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Danzig ’ , called my mum , as I disappeared into the house , ‘ looked as if he might do it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 11 | That enamel mug looked as if it might be his . |
| 12 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 13 | The room looked as if it might be quite comfortable . |
| 14 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 15 | ‘ It looks as if we might be in for a bit of a blow , ’ he remarked . |
| 16 | Watching him , Polly saw his jaw tighten , but all he said was , ‘ It looks as if we might be in for another blow . ’ |
| 17 | It looks as if we might have to pull back behind the Crozat Canal and hold St Simon . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , it is weird , and I do n't think he is completely right in the head , Ari , but I 'm afraid it looks as if he might be telling the truth . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Looks as if he might have to face a court-martial . ’ |
| 21 | Looks as if he might tonight but , mind , it 's only for Lyndsey 's room . |
| 22 | Looks as if he might have |
| 23 | ‘ Looks as if she might harbour quite a temper there . ’ |
| 24 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |
| 25 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 26 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 27 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |
| 28 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 29 | When they returned to the hallway , the child was standing by the living-room door , looking as if she might be about to cry . |
| 30 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |