Example sentences of "look so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gulf between the humble club player and the international has never looked so great . |
| 2 | She had never looked so well , and knew it . |
| 3 | And she had looked so well since her marriage , so calm and composed and so Well , not matronly , at any rate , as wicked Lizzie Braithwaite had suggested . |
| 4 | The tailored suit has never looked so good , with a fabulous explosion of colour and style happening this spring . |
| 5 | The interior of the Lift , even in this wrecked condition , had never looked so good . |
| 6 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 7 | We must have looked so gormless ; we certainly looked it in our passport photos . |
| 8 | Passing the two horses that had looked so sad and bedraggled that first day , she lingered to watch them . |
| 9 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 10 | Indeed , he had never looked so awake , all but shivering with awareness . |
| 11 | His skin , which had looked so moist and fungoid , was now smooth and clear , his flesh firm . |
| 12 | It would have looked so odd . |
| 13 | The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened . |
| 14 | And all the babies suddenly looked so nice . ’ |
| 15 | We did not promise ; but before we went back I asked them what had happened to the prisoner who had looked so funny escaping on a mule . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 18 | That was why Luke had looked so tense , she 'd forgotten . |
| 19 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 20 | Fabia went up to her room unable to find any reason why he should have looked so furious . |
| 21 | Looked so raw round his rear end . |
| 22 | Do n't looked so agonised . |
| 23 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |
| 24 | Both stockings were laddered , her hair had started to come down , and her new floral suit , which had looked so smart in London , was sticking to her . |
| 25 | Captain Trentham was generally the bearer of such news , and what annoyed Charlie even more was that he always looked so smart , clean , and worse — warm and well fed . |
| 26 | Rosie had never looked so lovely ; pregnancy agreed with her and she was glowing with happiness . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Russians would have felt the pressure then and not looked so silky on the ball . |
| 28 | The bride always looked so happy . |
| 29 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 30 | Even after the fire , Garvey had never looked so wretched . |