Example sentences of "[adv] look as [subord] [pron] " 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 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |
| 3 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ties all looked as if they came from a jumble sale . |
| 6 | That brings out the colour of your eyes so beautifully , and it 's casual enough to look as if you have n't dressed up . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | So if it 's green it just looks as if nothing 's there which is a bit of a nuisance . |
| 9 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |
| 10 | When Karl Kraus says that ‘ Some women are not beautiful — they just look as if they are ’ , we know what he means . |
| 11 | Just look as if you were spitting tobacco . |
| 12 | I drunk these fifteen pints and I fucking looked as if I was dead . |
| 13 | She just looked as if she was asleep . |
| 14 | It always looks as if I 've gone along with a sort of scalpel at the bottom of the letters as well , a sort of shaved off |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | GEORGE Carey has always looked as if he might be more comfortable in a cloth cap than a mitre . |
| 19 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 20 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 21 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 22 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 23 | He and Jake always look as if they 've got one skin less than other people , Ruth thought . |
| 24 | The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days . |
| 25 | In the heat of the moment it does not usually look as if there is anything to be done about the heat . |
| 26 | He looked as if he had n't shaved that morning but then , he would always look as if he had n't shaved that morning . |
| 27 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 28 | I WAS SAD to hear that ‘ Gaffer ’ ( Walter Mimpriss ) is dead , but sadder still that his obituary ( by John MacDougall , 25 September ) did not evoke the memory of a tall , lean , gangly man , with bent shoulders , who always looked as if he should have cow-dung on his theatre wellies , writes Marion Crouchman . |
| 29 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 30 | 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 . |