Example sentences of "[adv] to look [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 2 | On a six-month contract at 30 per cent , the seven per cent increase in the size of the individual instalments would push the APR up to nearly 65 per cent , for example : easily enough to look excessively expensive in comparison with the competition . |
| 3 | At thirty-two , he was young enough not to look completely haggard , even after thirty-six hours with only the odd hour 's sleep , but his dark hair was plastered to his head and the brown eyes were sunk back in his head and reddened with smoke and exhaustion . |
| 4 | Wickham tried not to look as outraged as he felt . |
| 5 | He stared at her anxiously , then at Slater , and tried hard not to look as interested as he felt . |
| 6 | Susan queried , trying not to look too eager . |
| 7 | Yanto tried not to look too eager . |
| 8 | It is very easy and only too human to retain a favourite technique and not to look too hard at other paddlers with different styles . |
| 9 | Annie tried not to look too concerned . |
| 10 | There is in fact a general danger that ‘ good ’ records will turn out to look remarkably similar to one another , ‘ bad ’ records made up only for non-conformists , individualists , or those who are in some way social or school ‘ loners ’ . |