Example sentences of "[art] [noun] looked [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 2 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't rate the weedy one with the glasses , ’ said Cawthorne , ‘ but the one with the beard looked a hard case . ’ |
| 4 | She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence . |
| 5 | poor Mr and Mrs Flokati ; owning the horse looked an agony , not a joy . |
| 6 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 7 | ‘ It has n't changed much , though the hall looked a lot smaller than I remembered . ’ |
| 8 | We believe it only on grounds of modesty : it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us , but not around other points in the universe ! |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking the lady looked a mite like my boy , ’ said the yeoman , slowly , unperturbably , like a dray-horse picking its way through a bog . |
| 10 | When the dealer arrived at the Gallery , he was escorted to Dr Bock 's office , where the director looked the picture over carefully . |
| 11 | The room looked the same . |
| 12 | In an inexplicable way , the lad looked a pathetic sight . |
| 13 | The guests looked the other way and talked more loudly . |
| 14 | All the corridors looked the same and he felt thoroughly confused by his new surroundings . |
| 15 | ‘ The eggs looked a bit … ’ |
| 16 | For most of the last mile , in fact , the race looked a match between Northern Jinks and Kilhallon Castle . |
| 17 | The whole looked a good deal less awful than the parts . |
| 18 | She had thought they could have fruit for dessert but the bananas looked a bit black and sorry , and there were only two ( bruised ) peaches left . |
| 19 | A first win of the season looked a possibility for Stocktonians when they led visiting Grindon 42–41 at the break . |
| 20 | He noticed that in the photographs of his childhood the rooms looked a lot less furnished . |
| 21 | The teachers looked the same as the pupils and everyone was equal , ha , ha , though I made a fool of myself by calling the male teachers sir and females miss . |
| 22 | The Apothecaries looked no further ; they approached Charles Cheyne , a Chelsea landowner of some substance , who agreed , in 1673 , to let the Society a three and a half acre plot at a rent of £5 per annum . |
| 23 | The girls looked a little less sulky and stared at the two townees . |
| 24 | From the bridge the church looked no worse than bizarre — a giant Christmas cake which , having risen too high in the oven , has been covered in over-decorated icing in order to obscure its deformity . |
| 25 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 26 | A good all rounder , although we felt that the bottle looked a little cheap . |
| 27 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 28 | Eaten off sheets of wrapping paper balanced precariously on their shivering knees the cheese looked a disgusting white excrescence , the ham pale and sickly and the olives slimy . |
| 29 | If , however , the bird looked the other way , death was inevitable . |
| 30 | The house looked the same , Sara thought , standing for a moment outside the gate and looking up at it . |