Example sentences of "looks [prep] [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	My friend , however , possessed a Toyota Hilux four-wheel-drive pick-up truck , and there can be no better vehicle in which to trespass than one that looks as if it would get your daughter pregnant and drink all your beer .
2	In black this detailing might be inoffensive , but in colour-coordinated white the Carlsson looks as if it would enjoy nothing more than hanging around outside Stringfellows waiting to pick up Page Three girls .
3	That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from .
4	It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style .
5	Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family .
6	These lists are not exhaustive — if they were they would fill the entire book — but work on the principle of : if it looks as if it will fit , then it probably will .
7	Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration .
8	MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over .
9	It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather .
10	‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question .
11	Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me .

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