Example sentences of "[to-vb] it look " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these women , regular 2 in 1 's often add to the problem , over-conditioning the hair to leave it looking lank and lifeless or stripping the hair of its natural oils , leaving it dry and brittle . |
| 2 | Because Reality Orientation starts with the world people know , it 's important to keep it looking the same . |
| 3 | The money raised at this event is put towards the running of the church and things needed for the village to keep it looking attractive . |
| 4 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 5 | Do n't use a varnish finish unless the door is very well protected by a porch and you are prepared for regular and frequent maintenance to keep it looking good . |
| 6 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 7 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 8 | I even had to hand letter it to get it to get it to look like itself . |
| 9 | I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I do n't wish to comment on the use of town hall rooms for this meeting , except to say it looks like another cheap political stunt by the Tories . ’ |
| 11 | She had to admit it looked that way . |
| 12 | So how are you going to make it look like a third ? |
| 13 | ‘ WE WANT to make it look as though it 's a wine merchant , ’ says Tim Waters in Clapham 's Wine Rack , south London , one of Thresher 's five prototype high-street wine shops . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 15 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 16 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 18 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 19 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 20 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 21 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 22 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 23 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 24 | Simply plugs into socket and controls any appliance which can be plugged into 13amp socket , to make it look as if a house is occupied . |
| 25 | To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea . |
| 26 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 27 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
| 28 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 29 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 30 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |