Example sentences of "[noun] it looked [adj] " in BNC.

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1 With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising .
2 ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day .
3 To Lucy it looked drab and overdone , lined with cars bumper-to-bumper like every other London street that she 'd seen since she arrived .
4 In this light it looked black .
5 At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute …
6 Mr Widdup said : ‘ Having lost the planning battle it looked likely that we would have had to allow our property to be dug up for services like electricity and sewerage .
7 The new Government needed strength , for without Austen Chamberlain , Balfour , Birkenhead or Horne it looked weak on paper , and it had to face an immediate general election .
8 by with the other day it looked clean .
9 I spat on my finger , rubbed it in the soot , then applied it to my eyebrow so that although it was not too convincing at close range , from a distance it looked natural enough .
10 First of all we need to get Hunlet off the pitch , as I 'm not in Leeds I 've been unable to keep up with this debate but at last sats Crewe game it looked terrible !
11 First of all we need to get Hunlet off the pitch , as I 'm not in Leeds I 've been unable to keep up with this debate but at last sats Crewe game it looked terrible !
12 Even in August it looked cold .
13 No , I think it 's a brown one according to Mary it looked brown it brown one not so bad , I mean if it was erm if it was a grey one would of been a sewer rat !
14 Her face was devoid of make-up and with the hair drawn back tightly and twisted into a high roll it looked naked , a face stripped for action .
15 Apart from needing varnish and loving care it looked seaworthy , but naturally there were no rowlocks and no oars .
16 That was the way it looked four hundred feet up .
17 When there was less zinc it looked cloudy . ’
18 This time it looked easy .
19 Most of the time it looked dead .
20 Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at
21 Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at
22 Although the sun shone on its ancient walls it looked cold and forbidding .
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