Example sentences of "he looked as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smooth-haired , bright-eyed , immaculate , with the merest hint of a woody , masculine fragrance about him , he looked as if nothing could faze him . |
| 2 | He looked as if someone had just hung a mop on his nose . |
| 3 | He looked as if it were a huge joke . |
| 4 | He was tall , and he looked as if he might be good at something decent like cricket . |
| 5 | Manipulating a lump of putty from finger to finger , hand to hand , he looked as if he was auditioning for the lead role in The Caine Mutiny . |
| 6 | He looked as if he was about to be sick . |
| 7 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 8 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 9 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 10 | He looked as if he was about to say more when someone shouted his name . |
| 11 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 12 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 13 | He 'd had cancer — melanoma , skin cancer — apparently a massive dose of it , and now he looked as if he could have taken on Frank Bruno . |
| 14 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 15 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 16 | He looked as if he could do with one . ’ |
| 17 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 18 | He looked as if he meant ti . |
| 19 | He looked as if he was going to pat the astronauts on the head . |
| 20 | He looked as if he had n't shaved that morning but then , he would always look as if he had n't shaved that morning . |
| 21 | Sergeant Joe did n't quite , but he looked as if he did , his eyes like gimlets , his mouth a hard line beneath his moustache . |
| 22 | He looked as if he were about to argue but then he shrugged . |
| 23 | He looked as if he thought I was deliberately sabotaging his modern dress Paul et Virginie . |
| 24 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 25 | He looked as if he 'd make a Rottweiler pause for thought . |
| 26 | He looked as if he could afford it . |
| 27 | He looked as if he hoped Connors might come to his aid again , but there was nothing from that quarter . |
| 28 | He looked as if he had heard better ideas . |
| 29 | He looked as if he were going to object , then did n't . |
| 30 | He looked as if he had been shot in the chest . |