Example sentences of "[pron] looks " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've 'ad me bath , ’ she said , ‘ d' you like me looks better now , mister ? ’ |
| 2 | One of the teacups has been chopped into little pieces but the other still has some water inside , which to me looks redder than it should . |
| 3 | Antonio Crepi , for example , used to give me looks that would have melted a candle . |
| 4 | ‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix . |
| 5 | Although chantries were not established everywhere , the recording of the priests who served them looks erratic , many being ignored , although the expression ‘ singing at ’ in some Norfolk parishes probably denotes one whose days were occupied saying masses and other prayers for the repose of the souls of the founders . |
| 6 | The list shows four predefined styles , but none of them looks enticing , so we 'll define one of our own for a heading . |
| 7 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 8 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 9 | As it stands , the force of economic interests against them looks irresistible . |
| 10 | Everyone looks at each other , and somebody finally says : ‘ Floyd says you 'll drop dead in a year . ’ |
| 11 | When everyone looks at you expectantly and everything you do is significant , when men defer and women give you cool , appraising glances ? |
| 12 | Everyone looks at you , I 'm sure , and thinks : an Indian boy , how exotic , how interesting , what stories of aunties and elephants we 'll hear now from him . |
| 13 | This time the tray is brought into the room and everyone looks at it . |
| 14 | Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures , so stiff and tense their buds wo n't open . |
| 15 | But tears are a great leveller ; everyone looks ugly with red-rimmed eyes and a screwed-up face . |
| 16 | I I wonder really , the only rational appro , response to the world at the moment is n't to be depressed , I mean , everyone looks around famines in Africa , and war and jus and depredation |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not an insubstantial age , though everyone looks so young to me now . ’ |
| 18 | At the Sphere Club I am struck by how aggressive everyone looks . |
| 19 | Everyone looks at each other with the blank expression reserved especially for when someone who is off their trolley comes into the near vicinity . |
| 20 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 21 | Everyone looks a little mystified . |
| 22 | ‘ Now everyone looks for ways to solve problems . |
| 23 | Everyone looks for different types of friends at different ages . |
| 24 | Everyone looks reasonably well-off in Campinas — this is the richest part of Brazil and wherever the poverty is , it does n't seem to be here . |
| 25 | I tell you I take off when I go out now , because , everyone looks at you . |
| 26 | ‘ When things are going badly , no-one looks good . |
| 27 | We leave Fionnphort and no-one looks back . |
| 28 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 29 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 30 | Nothing looks worse than bays stuffed full of unappealing books [ my italics ] |