Example sentences of "[pron] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 2 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 3 | Everyone looks reasonably well-off in Campinas — this is the richest part of Brazil and wherever the poverty is , it does n't seem to be here . |
| 4 | Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures , so stiff and tense their buds wo n't open . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not an insubstantial age , though everyone looks so young to me now . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 7 | Nothing looks more lamentably depressing than shelves sagging wearily in the middle , with decent books struggling to maintain a dignified upright posture . |
| 8 | Hands are always on display and nothing looks more unsightly than broken fingernails , highly coloured chipped nail varnish or chewed nails . |
| 9 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 10 | it 's back again to the old fashioned set , I mean I think nothing looks so untidy as to joined writing |
| 11 | I looks rather good and each shelf holds one full-size or two half-size trays . |
| 12 | Someone looks closely and cuts it open to see what comes out . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , they were unable to recover the loan because the customer had changed his looks completely and they were unable to identify him . |
| 14 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 15 | Other people found his looks so engaging that it is sad to think that he was deeply conscious of noses , especially when he was worried about Jewishness . |
| 16 | I look dead miserable ! |
| 17 | Yeah but I look dead false anyway ! |
| 18 | I am not saying take me like I look tonight and pretend that 's all you 've got to take , I am saying take me when there 's blood on my face . |
| 19 | I regret it , but if I look coldly at our lifestyle , we would n't be able to invest enough time in bringing a child up properly . |
| 20 | I look carefully at the dead fly still gracefully adorning the corner of the screen . |
| 21 | I look carefully at Fairfax 's moist , fatigued eyes , which have seen so much , for signs of irony . |
| 22 | You look at yourself and think hey I did n't have any food today so I look instantly , you , do n't you find that ? |
| 23 | At Riverside Studios during the interval of a play in Russian , I was chatting about anything other than the play to the Guardian 's critic , Michael Billington , when Mark Dignam approached Billington and , most courteously and with a touch of a bow , said : ‘ Mr Billington , I look forward to reading you tomorrow and seeing what I think of the play . ’ |
| 24 | The mail from home is now arriving fairly frequently and I look forward to each day hoping that a letter will arrive from Fiona . |
| 25 | I look forward to receiving further cooking lessons from her . |
| 26 | I understand that Mr Sanders has accepted an invitation to address the European Commission on the subject in Dublin , and I look forward to hearing his observations . ’ |
| 27 | I look forward to your state visit to Brigantia . |
| 28 | In distant prospect I look forward to them greatly , as a break from the monotonous , lonely routine of writing . |
| 29 | I look forward to meeting you immensely . |
| 30 | I rather doubt this is true , but I look forward to Part Two of this well-made documentary . |