Example sentences of "have looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off-stage , no one would have looked at Jamie twice , standard rips in his faded jeans and political tee-shirt . |
| 2 | I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner . |
| 3 | Lower Manhattan must have looked confusing to them as several different neighbourhoods met at the end of the island , at Coenties Slip . |
| 4 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 5 | The tall brick houses would have looked like Victorian mansions , except for the pagoda roofs and the intricate wood lattices in place of glass window panes . |
| 6 | The collection which they have prepared may have looked wonderfully appetising in the kitchen . |
| 7 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 8 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 9 | • Tom Matano , father of the MX-5 and head of Mazda 's Californian design studio , echoed the thoughts of many when he said of Citroen 's Activa II : ‘ That 's what the BMW 850i should have looked like . ’ |
| 10 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 11 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 12 | The programme ended with a complete performance of the ballet as the historians think it must have looked on that epochal occasion . |
| 13 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 14 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 15 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 16 | The radical change from the romantic picturesqueness of the Elizabethan manor house to the measured symmetry of South Luffenham Hall must have upset many of the more traditional locals , for this house would have looked daringly modern when it was built . |
| 17 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 18 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 19 | Alastair was a tall , handsome man , who would have looked very good striding over the heather in a kilt . |
| 20 | I had slept in the bedroom myself not so many years before , and in the first light of morning had got up to see what the village might have looked like before the traffic came and before the stone walls had been breached . |
| 21 | I saw the pond as it must have looked then , the converging tracks , and the grassy ascent to the foundations of the church . |
| 22 | At least , I thought , their eyes would have looked on that same pond , the pond which now my own eyes saw . |
| 23 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 24 | The Comfort of Strangers must have looked good on paper . |
| 25 | It was not as altruistic as it may have looked . |
| 26 | Those who wanted to know afterwards why British economic recovery was so poor by comparison with that of Germany and Japan in those years need have looked no further . |
| 27 | From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody . |
| 28 | No one would ever have looked for him there . |
| 29 | I must have looked as astonished as I felt . |
| 30 | Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment . |