Example sentences of "looked [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stayed close to the Oaks , as if they considered it their duty , and they looked as if they might find life a serious business . |
| 2 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 3 | Later that day , after many interviews with ladies who looked as if they 'd come straight from an enthralling hour knitting at the foot of the guillotine , we found our garret . |
| 4 | They looked as if they 'd come out of a medieval illustration . |
| 5 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 6 | Yes , yes , we erm , we 're obviously in Japan and erm , and increasing the sales slowly there but it 's a very good market for us , very good advertisement market er , for us and er , I think I 've told you before , even before , before the recession , it started , it looked as if we would recoup the extra spending in the first year . |
| 7 | ‘ We may have only won 1–0 , but it never looked as if we would lose . |
| 8 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 9 | It was certainly true that now , when at last it looked as if we might have our prahu , an increasing number of extremely sinister nakodas were approaching us with offers to take us to the Aru Islands . |
| 10 | It looked as if I would have to have a go at the electricity meter with an electro-magnet again . |
| 11 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 12 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 13 | It looked as if it would end up their lead story . |
| 14 | It looked as if it should have broken , amongst the pebbles in Adam 's bag . |
| 15 | ‘ You looked as if you could do with a sit-down , ’ said the boy 's mother . |
| 16 | At precisely the minute it looked as if he might step back inside the lodge , a young couple , obviously very much in love , got up and left , leaving a place for him to sit . |
| 17 | For a second it looked as if he might make a stab at it , but then he saw John Wakeham , looking a little crestfallen , coming out in front of him , while behind John Patten , Tony Newton , Michael Portillo and Sir Patrick Mayhew were about to swing through Downing Street gates . |
| 18 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
| 19 | The label on the bottle bore a picture of Dr MacLaren , who looked as if he might have been personal physician to Mr Gladstone . |
| 20 | Said reprovingly because George looked as if he might have been following the lesson . |
| 21 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 22 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 23 | Father looked as if he might hit me again . |
| 24 | For a moment Harry looked as if he might hit the other boy , but before Cora-Beth could intervene , he relaxed and smiled . |
| 25 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 26 | His hands gripped the wheel with what she took to be more than necessary strength and he looked as if he would stop , spring out and grip her neck with equal intensity . |
| 27 | The gentleman to whom I was presented was an upright , elderly man with piercing eyes and a chin that looked as if he would stand no nonsense . |
| 28 | For a moment he looked as if he would pass the script to Tallis , but he changed his mind . |
| 29 | I mean , he looked as if he would cope without having to pretend that everything was fine . ’ |
| 30 | Allen looked as if he would have liked to have said more , but the presence of Meryl evidently constrained him . |