Example sentences of "look very [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new stand looks very imposing as you come down the M621 towards it . |
| 2 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 3 | He met her gaze with a certain amount of scepticism , looking very satisfied when she found herself unable to meet his eyes for long . |
| 4 | According to the head teacher ‘ It may look very nice but we have a lot of difficult families and children . ’ |
| 5 | But it 'll look very odd if we rush it too much . ’ |
| 6 | It will look very strange if you choose a single , and extremely large , flower with a few wispy pieces of foliage for one season , while the next is a furious mix of masses of tiny alpine flowers and foliage . |
| 7 | An oval-shaped wreath can look very effective if it follows the lines of its oval frame , and you can make a similar style of garland in a heart-shaped design , whether small ( see p. 85 ) or much bigger and bolder and enclosed in a square frame . |
| 8 | ‘ It did n't look very businesslike when I walked in . ’ |
| 9 | Does n't look very professional but I suppose it 's better than not telling them |
| 10 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 11 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 12 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 13 | Even the inner-city property sites of National Carriers did not look very tempting once it became clear there was an abundance of that kind of property on offer . |
| 14 | It do n't look very clear when you look at it , but the sun and that it was it were n't half hot that day . |
| 15 | He wore old , dirty clothes , and I had to look very hard before I saw that it was my old friend . |
| 16 | These two cases look very different but they have many aspects in common . |
| 17 | GMTV staff look very sheepish when you mention Tonya , like embarrassed parents forced to talk about their pregnant daughter . |
| 18 | Nellie looked very serious as she listened to her battered husband reliving his terrifying experience . |
| 19 | They looked very nice when we had finished . |
| 20 | ‘ You looked very tired when you came back , ’ said Juliet . |
| 21 | He looked very handsome when he smiled , his mother thought fondly . |
| 22 | It looked very bad when we advertised an eight P M start and if |
| 23 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 24 | Stefan Glowacz looked very smooth as he cruised his way to the only flash of the round . |
| 25 | He looked very thin and he needed a new coat . |
| 26 | He looked very smart as he walked down the street in battledress , his boots shining like glass and his shoulders back . |
| 27 | I thought that she looked very pale when I arrived this afternoon . |
| 28 | When she glanced at him again he looked very grim and she wondered if she should have told Mitch that he might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain — on foot as he walked back to Málaga . |
| 29 | The trees looked very pretty when they finished . |