Example sentences of "look [prep] if [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of the ball suffered accordingly and although Biarritz scored two tries to Toulon 's one they never looked as if they could win the game . |
| 2 | He was gormless , spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside . |
| 3 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 4 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 5 | The girl looked as if she could do with a fairy godmother , or perhaps just a mother . |
| 6 | Keyserling looks as if he could afford it . |
| 7 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 8 | ‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question . |
| 9 | ‘ We had plenty of the ball but we did not look as if we could do anything from our set plays and we did not look likely to score from them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't look as if you could get anything right . |
| 11 | Very handy with a hip flask , but did n't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault . |
| 12 | Paul , in his shabby old suit , did not look as if he could pay for anything ; and the lawyer had sized him up . |
| 13 | LEE WEARS a shiny nylon jacket that 's on loan from the Sir Alf Ramsey estate , and cheesy sports pants that look as if they could walk home on their own . |
| 14 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a cup . ’ |
| 15 | You look as if you could do with a hot drink , and as a matter of fact , so could 1 . |
| 16 | ‘ You look as if you could do with a bit of help … ’ |
| 17 | Come on ; you look as if you could do with this coffee . ’ |
| 18 | You look as if you could do with collapsing on a sofa . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You both look as if you could use a stiff drink , ’ said Harris , softening the natural rasp of his voice with an almost paternal note of concern . |
| 20 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 21 | ‘ You looked as if you could do with a sit-down , ’ said the boy 's mother . |
| 22 | He looked as if he could do with one . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd had cancer — melanoma , skin cancer — apparently a massive dose of it , and now he looked as if he could have taken on Frank Bruno . |
| 24 | He looked as if he could buy up this whole street of houses with the petty cash . |
| 25 | He looked as if he could afford it . |
| 26 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |