Example sentences of "looked as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering — and at half-time , building on their win over Newbridge , it looked as if they would . |
| 2 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |
| 3 | They both looked as if they needed it . |
| 4 | Jim Smith 's Cup-fighters were hoping to rekindle a fading promotion play-off challenge and they were forced to put out what was , on paper , their strongest team , even though many of them looked as if they needed a rest after their efforts at Highbury . |
| 5 | Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 6 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 7 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 8 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 9 | There was a good turn-out of dads-to-be : professional types , city types , manual types and one or two dads who looked as if they were still , well … lads . |
| 10 | Silhouetted against the setting sun and peering anxiously upward , they looked as if they were awaiting their fate on Watership Down . |
| 11 | Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before . |
| 12 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 13 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 14 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 15 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 16 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 17 | The bows were short , stubby affairs which looked as if they had been bonded from several different kinds of wood . |
| 18 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 19 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 20 | Down at the far end of the valley , there was still snow on the upper slopes of the mountains ; they looked as if they 'd been sugar-dusted , with stone walls showing like fine , black veins above the treeline . |
| 21 | They stayed close to the Oaks , as if they considered it their duty , and they looked as if they might find life a serious business . |
| 22 | It looked as if they had discovered a minefield . |
| 23 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 24 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 25 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 26 | It looked as if they had nearly finished . |
| 27 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 28 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 29 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 30 | They looked as if they 'd come out of a medieval illustration . |