Example sentences of "[that] it looked [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 2 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 3 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 4 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 5 | One of its virtues was that it looked temporary : these may be abnormal times , it seemed to proclaim , but one day terrorism will be beaten , and once again doting parents will be able to photograph ambitious children on the steps of No. 10 . |
| 6 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
| 7 | Lucy thought that it looked fine . |
| 8 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 9 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 10 | It was all necessary , no doubt , but with all the optimism of his youth he could n't see that it looked promising . |
| 11 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |