Example sentences of "[vb past] it look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn used it look , she put it up in the cupboard . |
| 2 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 3 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 4 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 5 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The round-headed silhouette of the Scottish Fold gained it many admirers , although some felt it looked too sad . |
| 8 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 9 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 10 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 11 | Nigel thought it looked very much like that of a French aristocrat , with all those curls . |
| 12 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 13 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
| 14 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 15 | I was very pleased with the result and my friend thought it looked like fashion lace . |
| 16 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 17 | Personally , I thought it looked more like an earthworm ! |
| 18 | Defries thought it looked a bit obscene ; but then , perhaps that was appropriate . |
| 19 | I thought it looked lovely . |
| 20 | ‘ You thought it looked odd ? ’ he said . |
| 21 | When I was younger , I always thought it looked like money for jam . |
| 22 | When I was younger , I always thought it looked like money for jam . |
| 23 | " When I sent photographs to my sister in Canada , she thought it looked beautiful . " |
| 24 | There were some ragged robins in a jar on the windowsill ; she put the jar on the tray and thought it looked nice . |
| 25 | I thought it looked more like a microphone ! |
| 26 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 27 | The one at the top is the basic tree , the one on the left is one of " my " insects , and the one on the right has no name but I thought it looked pretty . |
| 28 | There were , though , negative comments : 17% of respondents thought it looked extravagant and was too glossy . |
| 29 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 30 | do n't be silly , no I thought it looked better at this other bit , this butcher 's , it looked leaner , but erm it was n't perhaps , perhaps I did n't cook it enough yesterday , drink your drink |