Example sentences of "looked [prep] [conj] it [verb] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | The corpse looked as if it had been attacked by dagger-billed birds . |
| 5 | The furniture , too , looked as if it had been gradually acquired over the years ; gifts , rejects , the unregarded remnants of long-forgotten jumble sales . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His face had gone very red and looked as if it had been sprayed with water . |
| 8 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 9 | The miniature stainless-steel kitchenette looked as if it had never been cooked in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 15 | The room looked as if it had been torn apart . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |