Example sentences of "[conj] looked [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle had the best of the chances or looked a shade more dangerous in front of goal , but a draw was the right result . |
| 2 | From a wooden plinth on one table , Hamish picked up a dull black cone that looked a little like a Viking helmet without the horns . |
| 3 | Jochim won it Greyson not a very good ball Gemmell wins it back for Forest now Black forward Collimore 's offside and that looked a very close decision . |
| 4 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 5 | Erm they went on a ship that looked a little bit like dry bean . |
| 6 | I mean that looked a write-off so I do n't know |
| 7 | and I think that looked a nicer length |
| 8 | Window wide open , no curtains and a narrow iron bedstead that looked no more comfortable than the one he had himself . |
| 9 | England had lost two series to Australia and looked a fairly ordinary outfit ; despite their experience in Australia , West Indies looked to have the better all-round team , and Greig 's ‘ forecast ’ seemed altogether ill-advised . |
| 10 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 11 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 12 | ‘ Reel Around The Fountain ’ ( in its pre-controversy days ) was the first choice and looked a certainty with its irresistible slowly bouncing melody until an instantly perfect ‘ Hand In Glove ’ changed minds and tactical manoeuvres . |
| 13 | They seemed well in control after 20 minutes , having taken an early lead and looked a class better than their mid-table opponents . |
| 14 | The skirt was steam pressed to perfection and looked a million dollars . |
| 15 | There have been occasional sightings of albino or part albino otters in Shetland and , because this was a big animal and looked a bit ‘ grizzled ’ round the muzzle , I thought it was probably a very old dog otter . |
| 16 | He was unshaven and looked a bit rough . |
| 17 | He was much paler himself , and looked a good deal sicker than the red-cheeked young man . |
| 18 | Shintillo , trained by Dettori 's guv'nor Luca Cumani , had caught the eye in two hot Newmarket maidens , and looked a nice horse for next year when cruising to a facile six-length defeat of Cannon Carew . |
| 19 | His head looked like a fudge sundae I swear to God , he could have put a spoon in his ear and a maraschino cherry on his crown and looked no worse . |
| 20 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |
| 21 | I watched as they laughed behind her back , mocked her , walked out of rooms when she appeared , and looked the other way when she spoke to them . |
| 22 | James Spicer had been a major in an infantry regiment and looked the part in a well-cut tweed suit , burnished brown brogues and his regimental tie . |
| 23 | But Richard turned his head even further and looked the other way . |
| 24 | You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that . |
| 25 | Neville , fresh in from points east , had just been down to Carnaby Street and looked the very model of the new generation . |
| 26 | Mike turned and looked the Campbell up and down . |
| 27 | Rayners Lane continued to press forward and looked the most likely to score as their skipper , Tommy Verney shot wide from fifteen yards after fifty two minutes . |
| 28 | In a rough kind of way he was good-looking , but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type . |
| 29 | He bowled for 23 overs and looked an old head , certainly not one who had failed to play a single championship match last season . |
| 30 | William Livingstone , first Governor of the State of New Jersey , was the grandson of a Scot , but looked every inch an American . |