Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had looked as if he minded more . |
| 2 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 3 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 4 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 5 | The TV western seemed to fade into the sunset some time in the mid-1970s , victim of a narcissistic age that preferred to look at prosperous , smart-alecky or violent images of itself ( Dallas , Cheers , Miami Vice ) . |
| 6 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 7 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 8 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 9 | And all the little blobs that had looked like cotton wool became , as he touched them , bunches of cherry blossom , tinged with pink , so real that you could almost smell them , almost imagine yourself out of this noisy workshop and waling between trees at dawn . |
| 10 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 11 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 12 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 13 | Passing the two horses that had looked so sad and bedraggled that first day , she lingered to watch them . |
| 14 | The forests that had looked cool and shady from above now seemed menacing . |
| 15 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 16 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 17 | Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion . |
| 18 | Sara stopped asking questions about Portugal and ceased to look out of her window in the mornings to see if any new ships had anchored in the lee of Beenbeg Point . |
| 19 | Somehow we got her mopped up and dried off , changed into dry clothes and made to look presentable in case any nosey parker in authority happened to look in . |
| 20 | Longer hair , whether chin- or waist-length , can be softened and made to look more feminine — whether left loose or piled on top of your head . |
| 21 | and bought the York stone cupboard all the way back in the wheel barrow and put it in , made , pack it all up and made to look . |
| 22 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 23 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 24 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 25 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 26 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 27 | Indeed , as Hazel turned the point and stopped to look about him , he could see the place where Cowslip must have come out . |
| 28 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 29 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 30 | He came forward into the room to stand close to her and bent to look into her face . |