Example sentences of "[adv] look [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children all looked as if they did n't have a care in the world , that this was just another ordinary day , and what was taking place within the hall some sort of social occasion . |
| 2 | The ties all looked as if they came from a jumble sale . |
| 3 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |
| 4 | When Karl Kraus says that ‘ Some women are not beautiful — they just look as if they are ’ , we know what he means . |
| 5 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 6 | He and Jake always look as if they 've got one skin less than other people , Ruth thought . |
| 7 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 8 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 9 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 10 | They both looked as if they needed it . |
| 11 | Both knights have to be bathed , shaved and properly clothed , and well looked after before they come to themselves , and Lancelot is ‘ sore ashamed ’ of his madness , and asks that it be kept from common knowledge . |
| 12 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 13 | Almost looks as if they 're gates or something . |
| 14 | ‘ They sometimes look as if they 've fallen off the back of a lorry . ’ |
| 15 | so I said to her come on I said come on you 'll got ta start trying to be strong , I know it 's a nasty night being celebration night when everybody else looks as if they 're enjoying |
| 16 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |
| 17 | The quality of the ball suffered accordingly and although Biarritz scored two tries to Toulon 's one they never looked as if they could win the game . |
| 18 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |