Example sentences of "that it look " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of its virtues was that it looked temporary : these may be abnormal times , it seemed to proclaim , but one day terrorism will be beaten , and once again doting parents will be able to photograph ambitious children on the steps of No. 10 . |
| 2 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 3 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 4 | A final glance at the cavity bed reassured her that it looked just as it should . |
| 5 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 6 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 7 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |
| 8 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 9 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 10 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 11 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 12 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 13 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 14 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 15 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
| 16 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
| 17 | like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky |
| 18 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
| 19 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 20 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 21 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 22 | He looked round the white-painted room , thinking that it looked somehow familiar . |
| 23 | Frost was so thick that it looked like newly fallen snow . |
| 24 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 25 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 26 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 27 | One Birmingham woman was able to keep her button-carding work in her bedroom , which was important because she considered that it looked ‘ so poverty ’ to be seen doing it downstairs . |
| 28 | Lucy thought that it looked fine . |
| 29 | ‘ Just that it looked as though he wanted me out of the way . ’ |
| 30 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |