Example sentences of "look [prep] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 2 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 3 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 4 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 5 | The house in California — it was in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles , I think — looked as if it had been flung by a giant hand against the side of a hill and had stuck . |
| 6 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 7 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 8 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 9 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 10 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 14 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 17 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 18 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 19 | The window did n't look as if it had been cleaned on the outside in years , and there were splashes of pigeon droppings on the sill . |
| 20 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 21 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 22 | Stephen wanted the hotel to look as if it had always been there , part of the landscape , and Paul suggested a South American landscape architect , whom he had heard of . |
| 23 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 24 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 25 | Ray Shepherd was a tall man with a craggy , lined face that looked as if it had once been weathered but was now the colour of chalk . |
| 26 | It looked as if it had landed there by chance , like a piece of paper or a leaf . |
| 27 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 28 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 29 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 30 | He was a stocky fifty-eight-year-old with grey hair and a small goatee beard which looked as if it had been stuck on to his chin with glue . |