Example sentences of "looked [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me what writers I liked and looked strange when I mentioned Paul Morley . |
| 2 | The café looked deserted as I approached the front door . |
| 3 | He suddenly looked interested when I arrived , and rubbed his leg in a rather strange way . |
| 4 | He looked offended but I guessed his idea of discretion was swapping his length of lead pipe for a rubber truncheon . |
| 5 | All it wanted was a new cover , I said , and she almost looked convinced when I said I was sure we could reach a price that suited us both . |
| 6 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 7 | I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain . |
| 8 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 9 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 10 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 11 | For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved . |
| 12 | ‘ I was daft enough to say his plants looked healthy and I got the Ancient Mariner treatment ; a squirt-by-puff account of how he managed it . |
| 13 | She looked startled when I snapped at her : ‘ What have they worked out ? ’ |
| 14 | The girl looked puzzled so I repeated the description and recognition dawned in her bright blue eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ It looked stormy but I risked it , ’ he wrote of a 1931 Boxing Day expedition with his younger son , and we drove through Cleobury Mortimer on to the Clees . |
| 16 | She still looked pale so I plucked up courage to speak . |
| 17 | • Sherman emerged from his sonic Orbitarium but looked flustered when I mentioned the album , denying any participatory interest in the Hughes-Coughlan partnership . |
| 18 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 19 | ‘ It was really nice and the room looked lovely and I did n't notice anyone getting very drunk or anything . |
| 20 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |