Example sentences of "that [pers pn] looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 2 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 3 | I had not realized that I looked so old and tired . |
| 4 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 5 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 6 | In fact , I came to the conclusion that I looked rather good in glasses . |
| 7 | absurd cries , so that I looked up , even then , |
| 8 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 9 | I was much more at peace with myself and more accepting of the way that I looked . |
| 10 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 11 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 12 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 13 | And now that I looked again at Mr White Face , I saw that beneath his paint his face had some of the configurations of a rat , with sharp little jaws and pointed nose , not at all like the inhabitants of Sarawak , a blunt-faced company , with which I was acquainted . |
| 14 | ‘ Not that I looked , really . ’ |
| 15 | I thought that I looked so smart in my white shoes , shorts , shirt and three cornered hat . |
| 16 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 17 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 18 | ‘ Ken Russell , the director , insisted I grew one of my own , rather than wear a false one , so that I looked completely convincing . |
| 19 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 20 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 21 | It was almost literally true that she looked no older . |
| 22 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 23 | No one ever said they liked her hair that way , or that she looked lovely when she smiled … |
| 24 | She worked as an assistant in a dress shop and it was important that she looked smart . |
| 25 | He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match . |
| 26 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 27 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 28 | The iron grey , Tero , got by because her coat was almost black , but Maldita was so dazzlingly white , except for a sprinkling of rust-brown freckles on her belly , that she looked as though she 'd been through the car wash . |
| 29 | They reassured her that she looked beautiful , and she knew they had bought the dress for her . |
| 30 | Annabel had wanted to hug her and tell her that she looked lovely . |