Example sentences of "[adv] look [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault . |
| 2 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 3 | Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven |
| 4 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 5 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 6 | Because to make a microscope preparation means that the tissue has to be fixed and stained , what one sees always looks as if it is a very rigid structure , but in the living organism the dendritic pattern of neurons is as mobile as the branches of a growing tree in a gentle breeze , so changed branching patterns are perhaps not so hard to envisage . |
| 7 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 8 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 9 | This should be carefully looked for because it can be improved by biofeedback treatment . |
| 10 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 11 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton wanted energy producers to absorb the tax ; after strenuous lobbying , it now looks as if it will be fully passed on to consumers . |
| 13 | Now looks as if it 's in her hair there the way things |
| 14 | Mm it does n't really look as if it it 's got ta be about that thick coming down do you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 16 | He says ‘ SAG efforts are frozen , it ca n't decide which way to go and does n't look as if it will ever get its act together . ’ |
| 17 | The window did n't look as if it had been cleaned on the outside in years , and there were splashes of pigeon droppings on the sill . |
| 18 | Does n't look as if it 's moving at all to me . |
| 19 | It does n't look as if it 'll factorize easily . |
| 20 | Does n't look as if it 's quite full yet . ’ |
| 21 | Does n't look as if it 's going to be dry to me . |
| 22 | I 'm never sure if they eat this weed cos it does n't look as if it 's going anywhere . |
| 23 | well said it does n't look as if it 's been painted once since it was built ! |
| 24 | well he 's going through it and he said well it looks alright to me and I say well it does n't look as if it 's connected , any way I won , I could see why then it did n't look connected |
| 25 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 27 | Indeed , the move seems generally acceptable for them , subject only to the natural constraint that it will be proscribed in certain cases where the adjective would consequently look as if it were attributive , with the result that an incorrect meaning would apparently be expressed ; for example : ( 19 ) this potion makes dogs bald ( 20 ) this potion makes bald dogs For the second reason , we turn to some additional aspects of questions . |
| 28 | And he does so and he finds and squares the ball to his right , Alan made an advance for it but it 's was there first , put ball forward looking for and it 's just beyond the fair haired striker and races away to pick it up . |
| 29 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 30 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |