Example sentences of "[noun] looked [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |
| 2 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 3 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 4 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 5 | The room was deserted and desolate : the arctic blue bubble of the drinking water machine looked as if it had turned to ice , two desk lights burned pointlessly above unoccupied desks and the rubbish bins were still brimming with polystyrene cups and waste paper . |
| 6 | He looked down at her , and for a moment looked as if he regretted his actions . |
| 7 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 8 | The offworlder looked as if he failed to comprehend the distinction between science and history . |
| 9 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 10 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 11 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 12 | Anthony 's hard features looked as if they had been carved from stone . |
| 13 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 14 | Those stacks looked as if they had been turned out of a tin . ’ |
| 15 | Both mother and daughter looked as if they agreed with him but Mercer , smiling round clenched molars , said with surprising bitterness , ‘ You will do what I ask or accept the consequences . ’ |
| 16 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 17 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |
| 18 | Sidacai looked as if he thought that the question was unnecessary . |
| 19 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 20 | The lino on the floor was scuffed and torn , the windows nearly opaque with grime , and the walls looked as if they had never been repainted since the place was constructed . |
| 21 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 22 | Though the groom looked as if he longed to get the whole thing over and done with , he obeyed the dictates of tradition and refused . |
| 23 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 24 | The open sewer in the high street looked as if it had never been cleaned and at times we squelched ankle deep in human excrement . |
| 25 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 26 | The weeds that we 'd uprooted in the morning were shrivelled and brown ; the earth looked as if nothing had ever lived in it . |