Example sentences of "looked to have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The War Office had therefore designed a structure which , from its general appearance and use , looked to have been based on the idea of a boy 's Meccano . |
| 2 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 3 | It looked to have been wasted for good in 1990 when , after struggling to overcome injuries and failing exams , he packed up and returned home to Teesside . |
| 4 | In the centre of his chest , where there was a heart motif on his tunic , there was a ragged hole disclosing his real heart , which looked to have been squeezed by an iron fist . |
| 5 | McCoist looked to have been hauled to the ground at the beginning of the second half , though not in the eyes of the official who also booked John Brown and the Belgian , Creva . |