Example sentences of "looked [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 2 | He was tall , and he looked as if he might be good at something decent like cricket . |
| 3 | Father looked as if he might hit me again . |
| 4 | This was put up for vetting to a nominated superintendent whose instinctive response was to deny its submission , suggesting it ‘ looked as if it would be editorially unsuitable ’ . |
| 5 | But another selector confided the truth that Wales should be giving club opposition a hammering — and at half-time , building on their win over Newbridge , it looked as if they would . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Widnes ............ 30 Canberra Raiders .. 18 FOR 20 minutes at Old Trafford last night , it looked as if Graham Lowe might be proved right . |
| 8 | Manipulating a lump of putty from finger to finger , hand to hand , he looked as if he was auditioning for the lead role in The Caine Mutiny . |
| 9 | There was a huge row within the Owen family and for a while it looked as if the plug would be pulled immediately . |
| 10 | He looked as if he was about to be sick . |
| 11 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 12 | He looked as if he expected Wexford to hinder him , but Wexford said nothing . |
| 13 | A sergeant with a face which looked as if its owner was more used to giving lumps than receiving them was standing next to her . |
| 14 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 15 | Crossley had to move quickly to save a glancing header from Sharp and just when it looked as if Forest might be more grateful for a replay Chapman won the tie . |
| 16 | In 1936 it looked as if the game had finally made a breakthrough when a national competition , involving teams from Gorky , Minsk , Baku and Moscow , was organised ; but someone at the Kremlin decreed that rugby was a capitalist pastime , and the game sank into oblivion once again . |
| 17 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 18 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 19 | By the second week , it looked as if it was going to catch on . |
| 20 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 21 | She looked as if she needed that weekend away . |
| 22 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 23 | It looked as if Iraq , once again , could be muffing its chance . |
| 24 | For a while , after the polls closed , it looked as if Mr Reynolds might pull off a stunning upset . |
| 25 | He settled down again to work ( ‘ lessons and literature ’ ) , with some hours spent at Wimbledon with Arthur Hardy ‘ in the warmth and strange visible light of the late afternoon ’ , and enjoyed the kindness around Which I never felt so much as of late , when it looked as if I was soon to cast it away with such apparent rudeness ’ . |
| 26 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 27 | It looked as if someone had left in a hurry . |
| 28 | It was a sensible policy , but it looked as if the Thatcher Government had simply executed a U-turn and baled out a loss-making nationalized industry . |
| 29 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 30 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |