Example sentences of "looks as if [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phone rings , though , so it looks as if somebody pays the phone bills . |
| 2 | It looks as if they 've been washed . |
| 3 | Whenever you visit their place unexpectedly it looks as if they 've spent every waking moment cleaning and polishing . |
| 4 | Looks as if they 've cleared it all up , he 's looking all around . |
| 5 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 6 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 7 | It looks as if we like bashing our heads against a wall . |
| 8 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks as if we 've got you for resisting arrest as well , ’ he told her grimly . |
| 10 | Remarks ( i ) On the face of it , it looks as if we have six results to prove , namely : |
| 11 | ‘ It looks as if we have a few customers waiting out there , ’ she managed lightly . |
| 12 | " It looks as if there 's been another murder on the moor . " |
| 13 | The bust of Unamuno is still there , and again it looks as if someone has attempted to defile it , perhaps in some would-be funny student jape . |
| 14 | Our postman looks as if he tips the scales at about twenty stone . ’ |
| 15 | He is a big likeable feller who looks as if he belongs in a jazzband playing the stringbass . |
| 16 | ‘ Looks as if he took it off . |
| 17 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 18 | The Office remarks that " he desired rather to be imbued more fully and deeply with the theological doctrines of Holy Scripture than with the study of physical and secular science " which looks as if he left after the trivium . |
| 19 | But it looks as if he went in and said ‘ I 'll have that wall . ’ |
| 20 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 21 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 22 | Not that the lad now looks as if he 's got any nerves . |
| 23 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 24 | The way I looked at was a rubbish tip , that bit it looks as if he 's cleared and the grass is growing . |
| 25 | Looks as if he 's got a bonnet . |
| 26 | He looks as if he has had one facelift too many . |
| 27 | No amount of ingenuity with a bottle of Timotei is going to disguise the fact that , once out of the car , your average speedster looks as if he has reversed through a hedge . |
| 28 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
| 30 | Apparently Dr. Lorrimer did n't take him his early tea this morning and it looks as if he did n't come home last night . |