Example sentences of "looked [prep] [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 2 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 3 | And it looked as if I was going to have to leave without that promised rarity . |
| 4 | They Matt and me , that 's to say — were arguing about baptising the Indians , and at the point the raft capsized it looked as if I was winning the argument . |
| 5 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 6 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 7 | I drunk these fifteen pints and I fucking looked as if I was dead . |