Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now it may look like I 'm just messing around with cars , but my job as a Kwik-Fit fitter means I 've always got plenty to do . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh me , but I 'm not hanging around , though it may look like it . |
| 3 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't she understand that it might look like she had bought him off with bribery ? ’ the leader asked . |
| 5 | You 've lost a heel — it 'll look like a little upside-down palm tree by the time you get home . ) |
| 6 | ‘ This is what it 'll look like from the front . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes we have to watch what we say when we go home because we do so many interesting things now that it would seem like we were boasting . |
| 8 | He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ . |
| 9 | Although the coin is removed it will feel like it 's still there and the victim will shake as hard as they can to the encouragement of the observers with such calls as ‘ Shake it off ’ . |
| 10 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 11 | She wonders what it will look like by midnight . |