Example sentences of "[subord] it looked [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except it looked harmless no longer . |
| 2 | She moved quickly to examine the long narrow table that had forms on either side , and although it looked clean enough she was not happy until she had washed it . |
| 3 | Her head and body were metal and her wings were water , water that was forced through holes in her back and lit from beneath so it looked solid , like glass . |
| 4 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 5 | The football crowd and estate dwellers of the big cities did n't five a monkeys what they were wearing in Harlem or anywhere else ; if it looked good in the Anfield Road End , the Scoreboard Paddock or the Clock End , it was good enough for them . |
| 6 | I wonder if it looked better if it was a bit bigger . |
| 7 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 8 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 9 | I only got it cos it looked nice . |
| 10 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 11 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 12 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 13 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 14 | I mustered the courage for a go at hot foil printing , and while it looked easy when done by a pro , I have a feeling Klondyke wo n't be offering me a job on the strength of my efforts . |
| 15 | Whether it looked new outside |
| 16 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 17 | Payton could have completed a hat-trick a minute later but shot wide when it looked easier to score . |
| 18 | Chalk on the lay-off indicated this was probably the right line , though it looked tricky for HVS . |
| 19 | Even though it looked good , it was still rather nerve racking until the letter landed on the doormat . ’ |
| 20 | Even though it looked cold it was quite hot . |