Example sentences of "so that [pron] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 2 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |
| 3 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 4 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 5 | These are played by four quadruple amputee performers , one a woman , so that they look like genuine robots , not ‘ men in suits ’ , yet are believable as characters . |
| 6 | There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new . |
| 7 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 8 | The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board . |
| 9 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 10 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 11 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 12 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 13 | It is usual to have the boards running so that you look down them as you enter the main door of the room . |
| 14 | And there 's the desperate search to find any boyfriend as quickly as possible , so that you look as if you 're all right and not alone . ’ |
| 15 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 16 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 17 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 18 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 19 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 20 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 21 | Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid . |
| 22 | Attach the arm inside the sarcophagus so that it looks as if it is coming out of the base , and bend it up slightly so that it looks as if it is pushing up the lid . |
| 23 | Place the foot at the base of the door , and attach the arm so that it looks as if it is holding the door open slightly . |
| 24 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 25 | Using a brush and diluted green and blue food colouring , paint the quarter globe of white on the cake drum so that it looks like Earth . |