Example sentences of "look [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Today , over fifty years after the beginning of the testing but successful reign of King George VI , the Abdication looks merely an unusual transition from one sovereign to another .
2 Yeah , some others are nice it looks already a , you know , it looks already old fashioned
3 Actually , with the exception of Oldham , and 4 home and only 2 away matches , this looks quite a tricky fixture list for them .
4 Cos that looks quite a nice one .
5 ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round .
6 For years I bet that mind you it looks quite a newish one that one and son .
7 Cos it looks quite a decent reasonable bungalow .
8 Looks quite a lot .
9 CHERYL had not looked forward a bit to her holiday .
10 He was sweating and looking just a little desperate as he bent over yet again .
11 The plot goes something like this : Bowser ( an evil character ) has captured Mario and has got his evil Koopas ( looking just a bit like the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles ) to steal parts of famous monuments from around the world .
12 What begins by looking just a little off parallel might become wildly different .
13 Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives .
14 I have found it very useful to prepare a graphical cropping plan ( see Figure 3 ) looking ahead a number of years .
15 ‘ I 'm afraid I do look rather a fright . ’
16 But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village .
17 It does look rather a big document , you know .
18 Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants .
19 She was actually Doris Clay , her tartiness only the variety adopted by certain barmaids who hoped to look just a little more glittering than real life .
20 Unworthy as I am , I look just a bit like Eric .
21 I have n't seen these look just a minute , please .
22 You look quite a way .
23 When it was on television it really looked , it really looked good but er the reality of it was it was pretty bad really but er the editor was very kind to me and made me look quite a hero but .
24 She must look quite a sight .
25 It was a good day and Svolvær looked rather a special place , but we were now tired and a campsite was priority .
26 I was chided for implying in last month 's notes that Somerset looked rather a better bet than Gloucestershire .
27 Anne chuckled and looked only a little abashed .
28 She looked away a moment , noticing how the fire 's light flickered in the window pane ; how it cast a mottled , ever-changing pattern against the narrow opening .
29 DeVore looked away a moment , then nodded .
30 She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was .
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