Example sentences of "[noun] look [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when a building looks a problem to sell , some planning authorities show a dangerous tendency to try to be kind and make encouraging noises that parts of the grounds might be suitable for development . |
| 2 | Main picture : From the outside , Lavender Cottage looks every bit the country idyll |
| 3 | On paper their bowling looks a trifle thin , particularly with regard to the demands of the Britannic Assurance County Championship , even allowing for the wit and wisdom of Messrs Hughes and Botham . |
| 4 | I like the candles but the kitchen looks a bit messy . |
| 5 | Yeah they 're a bit looks a bit slow do n't they ? |
| 6 | Gosh that car looks a bit rusty does n't it ? |
| 7 | But on the other hand appointing people in that light looks a bit odd . |
| 8 | Many of the new shops look a mess . |
| 9 | It does however , make printed images look a lot more professional , and should be ideal for use anywhere where presentation is a priority . |
| 10 | Eh , concentrate , oh yeah leggings , erm so Jenny tried them on , and they looked really nice on her , cos her legs , you see , cos I 've got this bit here , little bit there , erm , and being cropped , just made the legs look a bit sort of stumpy . |
| 11 | As for the poll I think Gav is just a little bit biased in his choice of Cuntona , as im sure anyone who has seen him will confirm Gavs evening job is actually as a Cuntona look a like you know posing for pictures for the Sun with an easel and tweeds . |
| 12 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 13 | The Lord Willington looked the sort of place into which dishonest rascals might put their inconvenient relations in order to get them out of the way : uncles with the DTs , incontinent aunts , senile grandads , and cousins who 'd been odd since they were born . |
| 14 | poor Mr and Mrs Flokati ; owning the horse looked an agony , not a joy . |
| 15 | One set of wing-tips was a mess , and both wings on that side looked a bit bent back ; otherwise , nothing . |
| 16 | The bright blue eyes looked a bit bloodshot , and there was a flush of colour across the cheekbones . |
| 17 | Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face |
| 18 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 19 | So we may , if we wish , use the weak anthropic principle to explain why the universe looks the way it does now . |
| 20 | My most successful Boston fern looks a picture on the corner of the bath , where it enjoys good , indirect light and a humid atmosphere . |
| 21 | D' ya think Jane looks a bit yellow ? |
| 22 | Guitarist Warren De Martini looks the part — skinny , cocky , codpiece screaming , is all tart and no voice . |
| 23 | Guitarist Warren De Martini looks the part — skinny , cocky , codpiece screaming , is all tart and no voice . |
| 24 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 25 | Those shoes looking a bit , good polishing up . |
| 26 | These lines look a bit like the isobars on a weather map , but the lines are isopachs , and the map an isopach map . |
| 27 | Poor old boy looked a bit tearful after they 'd talked . |
| 28 | Fairclough looked a lot happier playing alongside him , Dorigo was as Dorigish as ever , and Kelly did reasonably well at right-back . |
| 29 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 30 | ‘ It has n't changed much , though the hall looked a lot smaller than I remembered . ’ |