Example sentences of "[vb past] not look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna looked up , but she dared not look further than the hard chest , the white shirt still showing signs of damp . |
| 2 | Olivia did not look forward to the interview . |
| 3 | Miranda did not look forward to this . |
| 4 | I am sorry to confess that I did not look forward to seeing him at all . |
| 5 | I did not look forward to this at all . |
| 6 | Holly did not look away from his work . |
| 7 | ’ There were tears in his eyes , and he did not look away . |
| 8 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 9 | He did not look particularly inspired at the start of the day , but survived to make the semi-final where he met his old rival , Ben Spijkers , of the Netherlands . |
| 10 | THE small , middle-aged woman sitting alongside me in the rowdy ringside throng did not look particularly important . |
| 11 | All in all , as Reagan prepared to take office the omens for a successful presidency did not look particularly good . |
| 12 | Clara did not look best pleased to see her . |
| 13 | He did not look beyond , let alone ‘ below ’ , that . |
| 14 | She risked putting the lamp on and was pleased to see that Ana 's feet did not look as bad as her own felt . |
| 15 | A survey of the 2,000 or so companies quoted on The Stock Exchange , it showed that less than 5% of executive directors were women ( 428 ) , and that the future did not look much better — when the numbers of men and women in management and on the board were added together , the ratio was one woman to every 35 men . |
| 16 | He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face . |
| 17 | But , on a slow wicket , their partnership of 97 used up 29 overs , and 217 off 55 overs did not look enough . |
| 18 | We did not look specifically at extracontractual referrals and the extent to which payment for these was refused by purchasing authorities , but there is no evidence from our results that the contracting system affected out of district referrals from this group of practices to any great extent . |
| 19 | ‘ Come along ! ’ snapped Miss Harker in the most understanding snap it was possible to make — she was acutely aware of Prentice though she did not look directly at him . |
| 20 | He did not look directly at me . |
| 21 | He did not look directly at her . |
| 22 | It did not look abroad for its inspirations . |
| 23 | ‘ I watched him play against Liverpool and he scored a fine goal and did not look far short of his true form . ’ |
| 24 | She appeared more mature , bore herself in a different manner but did not look more than six or seven years older than her earlier self . |
| 25 | Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground . |
| 26 | Although , to his eyes , Bath did not look so very different , the woman across the table did . |
| 27 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | He did not look so much like Francis today . |
| 29 | Tonight he did not look so stern , and there was a softness in his fine , dark eyes . |
| 30 | She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile . |