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Example sentences of "must [verb] looked " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Never well you must 've looked big Deb cos you 're small .
2	I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner .
3	Lower Manhattan must have looked confusing to them as several different neighbourhoods met at the end of the island , at Coenties Slip .
4	Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers .
5	The programme ended with a complete performance of the ballet as the historians think it must have looked on that epochal occasion .
6	I saw the pond as it must have looked then , the converging tracks , and the grassy ascent to the foundations of the church .
7	The Comfort of Strangers must have looked good on paper .
8	From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody .
9	I must have looked as astonished as I felt .
10	Everything Fiona and Tremayne believed of me must have looked inevitable at that moment .
11	Set beside the works of Marquez et al , those of Angus Wilson must have looked distinctly unexotic , weighed down with sociological observation and liberal-humanist philosophising .
12	Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort .
13	Hardy 's Wessex must have looked something like this .
14	I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him .
15	I must have looked a little confused , for Miss Kenton then said : ‘ Mr Stevens , he really is in a poor state .
16	The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help .
17	From Mars it must have looked as if opposing armies of ants were on the move .
18	It must have looked very silly .
19	We must have looked so gormless ; we certainly looked it in our passport photos .
20	This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life .
21	The building had originally been a manor house and must have looked beautiful in its heyday .
22	Everything seemed to be going well , and it must have looked as if the weight of Galileo and the rest of the scientific world might succeed and get a thorough revision of orthodox science .
23	It must have looked bad last night for Bill to say anything .
24	The house must have looked like this , he thought , when his parents first arrived , more than thirty years ago .
25	A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’
26	I must have looked wounded , because Charlie broke a little .
27	Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime .
28	He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan .
29	Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached .
30	His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport .