Example sentences of "looks [prep] if he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our postman looks as if he tips the scales at about twenty stone . ’ |
| 2 | He is a big likeable feller who looks as if he belongs in a jazzband playing the stringbass . |
| 3 | ‘ Looks as if he took it off . |
| 4 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 5 | The Office remarks that " he desired rather to be imbued more fully and deeply with the theological doctrines of Holy Scripture than with the study of physical and secular science " which looks as if he left after the trivium . |
| 6 | But it looks as if he went in and said ‘ I 'll have that wall . ’ |
| 7 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 8 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 9 | Not that the lad now looks as if he 's got any nerves . |
| 10 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 11 | The way I looked at was a rubbish tip , that bit it looks as if he 's cleared and the grass is growing . |
| 12 | Looks as if he 's got a bonnet . |
| 13 | He looks as if he has had one facelift too many . |
| 14 | No amount of ingenuity with a bottle of Timotei is going to disguise the fact that , once out of the car , your average speedster looks as if he has reversed through a hedge . |
| 15 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
| 17 | Apparently Dr. Lorrimer did n't take him his early tea this morning and it looks as if he did n't come home last night . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it looks as if he did what he was told after all . |
| 19 | Certainly looks as if he did I mean he did n't give any other indication . |
| 20 | ‘ He looks as if he needs a drink , ’ said Nicholas , planing his voice into a gentle neutral tone . |