Example sentences of "[noun pl] looked [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 2 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 3 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 6 | The early fusion experiments looked as if they were making great strides toward the desired goal . |
| 7 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 8 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 9 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 10 | The Blues looked as if they might struggle to punch a hole in a paper bag , let alone score . |
| 11 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’ |
| 13 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 14 | Sidacai looked as if he thought that the question was unnecessary . |
| 15 | Artai looked as if he was suddenly bored by the whole interlude . |
| 16 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 17 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 18 | The lino on the floor was scuffed and torn , the windows nearly opaque with grime , and the walls looked as if they had never been repainted since the place was constructed . |
| 19 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |