Example sentences of "look [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : Sparkling Crystal Gold finish from Mazda 's Images collection looks just as appealing when bulbs are not lit . |
| 2 | ‘ Looks just as I expected , ’ Patrick said , plugging in the kettle . |
| 3 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 4 | A playwright will often do his best to supply this non-lexical information by telling the reader that the character shrugs , winks , or looks heavenwards as this or that phrase is uttered . |
| 5 | A chorus of ‘ Noes ’ greeted the coroner 's demands though Athelstan noticed that the hospitallers looked away as they mumbled their responses . |
| 6 | ‘ It looks almost as though it might be a fire . ’ |
| 7 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
| 8 | Future risks — ‘ there should be a cultural shift in the audit so that it looks forward as well as backward ’ . |
| 9 | But the reflection is likely to be more interesting and more challenging if the activity looks forward as well as over the shoulder , as it were . |
| 10 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 11 | She opened the door , looking away as she did so and listening for a second to the song of a skylark on the wind . |
| 12 | Knowing where to look can be a danger if it completely stops us from looking elsewhere as well . |
| 13 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 14 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 15 | Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before . |
| 16 | She cast about , looking downwards as though she had dropped something . |
| 17 | A direct-link balanced tree index would also look just as in Fig. 7.3(a) before additions . |
| 18 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 19 | What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ . |
| 20 | Laughing , Niall swept her effortlessly from her feet , returning the kiss measure for measure , and Lindsey had to look away as jealousy seared through her like a forest fire out of control . |
| 21 | out of that rear window all the time not using your rear view mirrors look once as well . |
| 22 | Most people look downwards as they negotiate the pot-holed road that leads into the village of Perteguhan in North Sumatra . |
| 23 | Erm it does n't look really as though out of , certainly out of this six that we 're going to get three . |
| 24 | It wo n't look quite as the florist intended , but you will have a lasting reminder of the lovely gift once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 25 | Kneel on all fours , back straight and look forward as you lift and then lower your right leg , knee bent , out to the side . |
| 26 | Two weeks after quitting their civic home of more than 60 years to move into new offices in the town hall , Loftus town councillors now have to look again as looming charge capping of the district council could mean the closure of the uneconomical hall . |
| 27 | She looked away as Trent had done . |
| 28 | She looked away as though reluctant to think about it . |
| 29 | Nicholson looked away as he replied : |
| 30 | He looked away as Stephen slid his arms around Christina , pulling her against him as they said goodbye . |