Example sentences of "[not/n't] have looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 2 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 3 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 4 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 5 | Peter Roebuck might not have looked 13 in 1969 , but then he could well be taken for less than his 36 years now . |
| 6 | If the tortoiseshell had still been on the windowsill she probably would not have looked in , but the tortoiseshell had removed itself to the hearth rug . |
| 7 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 8 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 9 | At the end , I may not have looked much like her , but I felt like Brigitte Bardot . |
| 10 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 11 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 12 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 13 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 14 | Even a trial separation from Barnet was too much for Fry , who says that he could n't have looked himself in the mirror if he 'd refused to come back . |
| 15 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 16 | ABBERLEY : You ca n't have looked after her . |
| 17 | ‘ If you loved Ruth I would n't have been able to — I would n't have looked after Ruth as I have . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 19 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 20 | The priest could n't have looked more relieved if he had completed a mission to those that dwell in the waters that are below the earth . |
| 21 | They 'd have sacked him , if it had n't been for his war-record — it would n't have looked good . |
| 22 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
| 23 | There was also a pair of blue-rimmed glasses which Dame Edna Everage would n't have looked amiss in . |
| 24 | If I 'd hit you you could n't have looked more stricken . |
| 25 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 26 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 27 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 28 | erm I could n't have looked after my mum . |