Example sentences of "she looked as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 2 | She looked as if she needed that weekend away . |
| 3 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 4 | She looked as if she might explode at any moment . |
| 5 | For a moment she looked as if she might be going to . |
| 6 | She looked as if she was still asleep … but there was blood on her breast . |
| 7 | She looked as if she was asleep . |
| 8 | She looked as if she was in pain . |
| 9 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 10 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
| 11 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 12 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 13 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 14 | She looked as if she had withered from within , and she was obviously disturbed . |
| 15 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 16 | She looked as if she had heard a lot more , but was too tactful to say so . |
| 17 | Short , rather thickset , with dark curling hair , dark eyes , and freckles , she looked as if she would be most at home with dogs and horses , or with bared arms scrubbing a dairy down , and perhaps she was , but she was also very intelligent , highly imaginative , and easily my best student . |
| 18 | She looked as if she were trying to remember something . |
| 19 | She looked as if she was fighting back tears . |
| 20 | She looked as if she needed a pillow ; her head was thrown back awkwardly . |
| 21 | She looked as if she was asleep . " |
| 22 | Frankly , she looked as if she 'd got a few bundles of twelve-page letters stuffed up her woolly even now . |
| 23 | She looked as if she was about to walk on stage rather than be interviewed by detectives from New Scotland Yard . |
| 24 | She looked as if she wanted to go back in but her mum kissed her goodbye and shut the door flat in her face and went off back to bed . |
| 25 | She looked as if she were about to cry . |
| 26 | She looked as if she had been kissed thoroughly — her fair hair was tangled , her lips full and red , and even her own blushing made the point clearer . |
| 27 | She looked as if she had a lapful of tropical bird feathers . |
| 28 | She looked as if she did n't know what I was talking about , which was OK . |
| 29 | She looked as if she had been attacked . |
| 30 | When she looked as if she was about to ask him why , he went on , ‘ There 's a good reason — you have to believe it . |