Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Such luxurious hair , a face that looks as if it belongs to an angel … but of course , ’ he murmured , ‘ you kiss like an expert . ’ |
| 4 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 5 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 6 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 7 | But it looks as if it looks as though she stands there and something just drops |
| 8 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 9 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 10 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 11 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 12 | Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems . |
| 13 | It looks as if it has come straight out of a childrens ’ story book , for it is round with cosy little windows peeping out of the almost conical thatched roof . |
| 14 | The , and here 's the clever bit , I roll each chunk in chopped fresh herbs , usually parsley , thyme and a little tarragon so that the outside edge looks as if it has moss growing on it . |
| 15 | ‘ The brent [ German brand = burned ] goose looks as if it has stuck its head and neck up a chimney and emerged sooty black — although with a little of its ‘ clerical collar ’ still clean . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 18 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 20 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 21 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |
| 22 | And as demand for their meat grows , the breed looks as if it 's been saved by its bacon . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 25 | That one , looks as if it 's never been painted I think . |
| 26 | He recommends shampooing hair at least twice a week , more often if it looks as if it needs it or you live in a city . |
| 27 | Looks as if it needs a good smack ! |
| 28 | Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence . |
| 29 | Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made . |
| 30 | Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ . |