Example sentences of "had look so " in BNC.
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| 1 | His skin , which had looked so moist and fungoid , was now smooth and clear , his flesh firm . |
| 2 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 3 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 4 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 5 | Katherine had looked so achingly beautiful when Mathilde had talked about it . |
| 6 | He kept thinking of the girl in Mu Chua 's House of the Ninth Ecstasy ; the singsong girl , White Orchid , who had looked so much like Vesa . |
| 7 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 8 | We did not promise ; but before we went back I asked them what had happened to the prisoner who had looked so funny escaping on a mule . |
| 9 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 10 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 11 | And she had looked so well since her marriage , so calm and composed and so Well , not matronly , at any rate , as wicked Lizzie Braithwaite had suggested . |
| 12 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |
| 13 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 14 | That was why Luke had looked so tense , she 'd forgotten . |
| 15 | Passing the two horses that had looked so sad and bedraggled that first day , she lingered to watch them . |
| 16 | Both stockings were laddered , her hair had started to come down , and her new floral suit , which had looked so smart in London , was sticking to her . |