Example sentences of "look [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 2 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 3 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 4 | One way that looks as though it works is simply to enter the formula +A5 into C5 and then copy from A5 to A6 … |
| 5 | It looks as though it stopped work a decade ago . |
| 6 | Chair , it looks as though it includes not only c councillors , but certainly former officers . |
| 7 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 8 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 9 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 10 | The low cost of setting up such a system allows people who have never ventured beyond typewriter or wordprocessor to produce material which looks as though it has been professionally typeset . |
| 11 | To these pieces she applies flourishes of paint in mad swoops of colour — a chair looks as though it has been wrapped in a Mexican Indian blanket , a small table is covered in a riot of pattern , full of references to Memphis — the Milan school and Tennessee . |
| 12 | ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’ |
| 13 | Like Irons 's immaculate body , which looks as though it has spent too long in the gym , it is all very pretty , and attractive , and unsurprising . |
| 14 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 15 | It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’ |
| 16 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 17 | It looks as though it 's stopped raining now . |
| 18 | Well everything looks as though it 's had a good water now . |
| 19 | Well if it looks as though it needs a drop we can always pour a drop in ca n't we ? |
| 20 | I wo n't say through the door , looks as if it has been . |
| 21 | Only one arrangement looked as though it belonged together : those two lines of dots and blanks , they must be binary numbers . |
| 22 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 23 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 24 | As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the open doorway , the newly-plastered room looked as though it had been covered in the night by a fine layer of pinkish-buff snow . |
| 25 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
| 26 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 27 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 28 | Bicker 's face looked as though it had been ground out on a millstone , but Ratagan was beaming . |
| 29 | For once he really looked quite smart , in well-cut grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and strength of his thighs , and a cream shirt that actually looked as though it had been ironed . |
| 30 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |