Example sentences of "look [prep] [conj] it have " 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 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 18 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 19 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 20 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 21 | Menlo Park California-based Network General Corp is offering another system for its Sniffer Network Analyser : a new version will run on the Toshiba Corp T6400/DX2 colour portable running at 50MHz ; currently the new implementation supports only Ethernet , but Token Ring support is promised for the second quarter ; the move looks as if it has been caused by the chronic shortage of the Compaq Computer Corp machines that form the basis for the existing Sniffer systems . |
| 22 | It looks as if it has come straight out of a childrens ’ story book , for it is round with cosy little windows peeping out of the almost conical thatched roof . |
| 23 | The , and here 's the clever bit , I roll each chunk in chopped fresh herbs , usually parsley , thyme and a little tarragon so that the outside edge looks as if it has moss growing on it . |
| 24 | ‘ The brent [ German brand = burned ] goose looks as if it has stuck its head and neck up a chimney and emerged sooty black — although with a little of its ‘ clerical collar ’ still clean . |
| 25 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 26 | They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee . |
| 27 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 28 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 29 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 30 | And , as this post here , with , whatever it is , it looks as if it 's got some paddings on the ground , maybe a , a boat sometimes gets moored up to it and that 's just to stop the boat er banging up agai maybe the tide comes in that far , I do n't know . |