Example sentences of "look [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 2 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 3 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 4 | Suddenly my short journalistic career looked as if it would stay short . |
| 5 | There were a few exceptions to prove the rule , but by and large the Commons looked as if it were fighting the class war rather than debating the need for the protection of wild mammals . |
| 6 | She was neither young nor old , a tinker ; her hair , as with so many of them , looked as if it were bleached , while her skin was dark with outdoor living . |
| 7 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 10 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 11 | That enamel mug looked as if it might be his . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 14 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 15 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 16 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 17 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 18 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 19 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 20 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 21 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His small suitcase had been packed , and looked as if it was ready to go . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The room looked as if it might be quite comfortable . |
| 26 | The open-windowed room looked as if it was quite far away from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 30 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |