Example sentences of "[to-vb] it look " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ WE WANT to make it look as though it 's a wine merchant , ’ says Tim Waters in Clapham 's Wine Rack , south London , one of Thresher 's five prototype high-street wine shops . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 3 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 4 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman . |
| 6 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 7 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 8 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 9 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 10 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 11 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 12 | Simply plugs into socket and controls any appliance which can be plugged into 13amp socket , to make it look as if a house is occupied . |
| 13 | To make it look as though the ship is lost at sea . |
| 14 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 15 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
| 16 | And when the pair went to a recent wedding , Sir Charles spray-painted an old gran 's hat for Lady Jeannie to make it look new . |
| 17 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 18 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 19 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 20 | But she knew that Chinese Charlie would clean and press a garment to make it look almost new and she could get as much as two shillings for a good overcoat or a suit . |
| 21 | Although he had the pride and the carriage to make it look easy , he was often terrified . |
| 22 | This has been painted in a strong colour to make it look more aggressive . |
| 23 | But , in an attempt to make it look as if democracy were alive , Iran 's clergy were urged to form political parties . |
| 24 | In the Sun 's report , the accused was alleged to have told the police that he stripped the victim naked and cut off one of her breasts to make it look like ‘ the work of a madman ’ . |
| 25 | To make it look right so |
| 26 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 27 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
| 28 | But the effect on the host warbler is not , of course , just to make it look ridiculous — the bird that rears the parasitic fledgling will fail to rear young of its own . |
| 29 | Yeah , I should get one that yeah page ten , it says return to your letter and essentially i it tells you all the various formatting options that you want to apply to your document to make it look neat and tidy . |
| 30 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |