Example sentences of "[vb infin] looked [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 2 | Set beside the works of Marquez et al , those of Angus Wilson must have looked distinctly unexotic , weighed down with sociological observation and liberal-humanist philosophising . |
| 3 | We may have looked pretty silly last week , with our cover predicting Major 's disappearance , but at least we were on sale two days before the election . |
| 4 | Indeed , they must have looked pretty mad , sitting on the sodden bench in the pouring rain . |
| 5 | Had I chosen anything smaller or narrower , the picture would have looked slightly fussy or muddled . |
| 6 | In Middle English the first four letters of the original word ( wifmen ) would have looked very similar . |
| 7 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 8 | Alastair was a tall , handsome man , who would have looked very good striding over the heather in a kilt . |
| 9 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 10 | It must have looked very bad , but I 'm afraid one does n't always stop to think how a situation appears to an outsider . ’ |
| 11 | It must have looked very silly . |
| 12 | But for the Thorn deal cash , the bottom line would have looked very shaky . |
| 13 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 14 | If you 'd have done it something else that would have looked really nice ! |
| 15 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 16 | The solution must have looked quite funny to an onlooker . |
| 17 | Even the understated ‘ Dan Dare fins ’ styling of the chrome bridge and pickup covers does not look dated , and although these came to be regarded as obstructive ( the fashion was to use them as detachable ashtrays , or discard them permanently ) the bass would have looked seriously unfinished without them . |
| 18 | Not that anybody would have looked too good in that gloom . |
| 19 | In her blue dress with the big , lace collar , she must have looked as strange to the other customers as they did to her . |
| 20 | I must have looked as astonished as I felt . |
| 21 | If I 'd hit you you could n't have looked more stricken . |
| 22 | The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest . |
| 23 | It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate . |
| 24 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 25 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 26 | We must have looked so gormless ; we certainly looked it in our passport photos . |
| 27 | It would have looked so odd . |
| 28 | Apart from having limited time to try and spread the gospel about the tournament in its magnificent venue , if , as should have happened , Jimmy Connors had played , if John McEnroe had survived his first round , if Pat Cash had looked better prepared and if , as certainly should have been the case , Jeremy Bates had taken the opportunity he had to upset Wimbledon quarter finalist , Thierry Champion , the whole picture may have looked so different . |
| 29 | Fabia went up to her room unable to find any reason why he should have looked so furious . |
| 30 | On any other than his strongly classical face , they would have looked disturbingly effeminate . |