Example sentences of "[verb] look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly a high turnover in the course of fifteen years can not be ruled out , but nonetheless subletting looks probable unless tenurial conditions discouraged long occupancies : the lease of the manor farm was dated 1534 . |
| 2 | Never well you must 've looked big Deb cos you 're small . |
| 3 | I hit my pillow so hard that it has looked reproachful ever since . ) |
| 4 | ‘ He has looked strong and sharp , ’ said Roker No 2 Bobby Ferguson . |
| 5 | ‘ Alan has looked impressive so far in our pre-season matches , ’ said the Blades boss . |
| 6 | Certainly , Temple has looked impressive on his route to Gateshead , boxing with a calm patience and displaying an ability to take and hand out punishment . |
| 7 | The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests . |
| 8 | Should this unlikely event take place , she did not want to be caught looking less than her usual immaculate self . |
| 9 | She starts looking interested . |
| 10 | Crilly stops and stares at me , and then stands looking ginger and flushed , and he gathers his things . |
| 11 | do they , if they say look that 's the team then th people are h happy . |
| 12 | I mean ar are you going , are you going to be a real revolutionary and say look this , this revolution is so important that |
| 13 | And I assure you she would have every right to go back to the shop and say look these tights are not fit for their purpose . |
| 14 | It must work properly , and if you bought it as new , it has to look new and be in good condition . |
| 15 | You wo n't get a prize unless you 're up to it , The er the ploughing has to look professional . |
| 16 | Or come and send for him , h he what has to be in the yard , the blacksmith has to look thirty to forty horses their blacksmith has to look round every one of them . |
| 17 | They do n't seem to want to make every part fantastic and extreme and beautiful , and it has to look fantastic … ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ It has to look open and attractive , yet incorporate a mass of authoritative detail . |
| 19 | Going to the bathroom these days is quite a heavy trip : the can becomes a kind of geyser , and Tod has to look lively with that bucket of his . |
| 20 | Since most readers ' first reaction to such poetry is unfavourable , one has to look hard tor critics who have something positive to say . |
| 21 | The 35-year-old is chief valuation assistant for Liverpool City Council , which means she always has to look smart for work . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that C4 has to look harder minute-by-minute at audience size and profile , it needs to strike a balance between more people watching without losing good market rates . ’ |
| 23 | Bruno needs to look sharp |
| 24 | When crossing the road , one needs to look each way quickly and often several times . |
| 25 | TODAY 'S man needs to look fit , smooth-skinned and perfectly groomed wherever he is . |
| 26 | Not because I think I want to look young but just because I like to go to bed early . ’ |
| 27 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 28 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 29 | If you know that a slightly longer sweater will make you look slimmer and you want to look that way , it is up to you to examine the diagram before you knit and work accordingly . |
| 30 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |