Example sentences of "it looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the world looked different from that height , even if it looked changed , even if what on the ground seemed important was transformed into insignificance . |
| 2 | It looked as though nothing would ever shake it . |
| 3 | The crowd was still thickening , filling back down the high street , but it looked like time to start . |
| 4 | First it looked as though Agassi would bolt through as he reached for stardom ; then Courier did it . |
| 5 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 6 | Chalk on the lay-off indicated this was probably the right line , though it looked tricky for HVS . |
| 7 | It looked hard and did not disappoint . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It looked a pointless exercise , facing a passed partner , but West had his reasons . |
| 11 | But one health authority finance officer said it looked ‘ inconceivable ’ that the budget could be balanced without service cuts , in the winter or next year , unless extra cash was provided or health ministers allowed the deficit to be carried forward . |
| 12 | Widnes ............ 30 Canberra Raiders .. 18 FOR 20 minutes at Old Trafford last night , it looked as if Graham Lowe might be proved right . |
| 13 | Indeed during the finale , at the rate his arm whirled over his Fender strings , it looked as though he had caught the tail end of Hurricane Hugo during their US tour . |
| 14 | From our ( disad ) vantage point 50 yards from the touchline , it looked like Bull 's goal ( well he was within two yards ) . |
| 15 | As they wept around his coffin , one relative who said she had dressed the body , said : ‘ It looked as though he had been tortured . ’ |
| 16 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 17 | As I entered the orchard it looked completely deserted . |
| 18 | It looked as though the donnish youth would go straight back to donnery and be a don for the rest of his life ; perhaps he was not suitable for other kinds of clergyman . |
| 19 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 20 | It looked like a bloody great sea of Afghan coats with tufts of long hair poking out from them . |
| 21 | There were bomb sites around and a lot of it looked like something out of the Ealing comedies . |
| 22 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 23 | When Steve and Paul brought in all their stolen gear , it looked like a right little Aladdin 's cave . |
| 24 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 25 | The doctor was rubbing her hands , probably to warm them , but it looked like a gesture of glee and greed . |
| 26 | At one point it looked as though the helicopter operator and entrepreneur Alan Bristow would come to the company 's rescue , but when he changed his mind there was a crisis of confidence . |
| 27 | I went up to Scotland where by now they had dug the hole for this second plant and it looked absolutely enormous . |
| 28 | I was always surrounded by strong images — the image of the café , how it looked and the service it provided . |
| 29 | It looked a reasonable enough distance , so I made my way towards it . |
| 30 | One thing we knew for sure — beyond here was the unknown , and it looked big . |