Example sentences of "the [noun] it look [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 2 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 3 | At the moment it looks as though shock Juddmonte International winner Ezzoud will come over from England and if that 's the case we could have an intriguing race on our hands . |
| 4 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 5 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 6 | On the outside it looked like something left over from the siege of Leningrad in 1944 , but inside everything was in immaculate white , including a large wrinkled matron who proceeded to give the medico a verbal roasting , followed by expulsion from the premises . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe they should build a police station on the site it looks as though it could come in very handy in the future … ‘ |
| 9 | When I saw the negative it looked as though she had a dog 's head on her shoulders . |
| 10 | The shelves towered above me and from where I sat on the floor it looked as though all of my toys were staring straight at me . |
| 11 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 12 | If you drop the E it looks like policing does n't it ? |
| 13 | He says that in the end it looks as though the TI offer may be taken up . |
| 14 | From the memo it looks as though you ask me for the form as P.A. to Head of Group . |
| 15 | Inside the hotel it looked as though the nine-hundred-day siege of World War Two was still going on . |
| 16 | On the day we lost the hour on the clock it looks as though winter 's started in earnest . |