Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just look mean without even trying ’ he once said . |
| 2 | I just look tired for some reason . |
| 3 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't I always look smart when I go out with you , darling ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I always look great , thank you , Ms Fratelli . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 7 | I probably looked worse than I was . |
| 8 | ‘ Do I really look nice ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | I never look sullen . |
| 10 | ‘ He breathes good country air and must have t'best of everything , but 'e only looks frail . ’ |
| 11 | And the long-suffering elder , which always looks beautiful , graceful , however much you cut it , with its lacy plates held out to the sun . |
| 12 | and its still looking good for the promotion play-offs … only Tranmere have a realistic chance of catching the top six teams … |
| 13 | And Murphy himself often looks edgy , as if he 's trying to button his lip ( he seems happiest with the funny improvised boy 's talk routines ) . |
| 14 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 15 | The damage caused in the Second World War has been repaired on the exterior , which now looks well . |
| 16 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Wrong : the body is cut at the knees — which often looks awkward . |
| 18 | Cnut 's laws , which initially look such promising sources , are in reality something of a quicksand in which their compiler and his motives can never be forgotten . |
| 19 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 20 | The dogmatic gap between them still looks unbridgeable : Right against Left , Christian against secular , ancient against modern . |
| 21 | She suddenly looked tender and vulnerable to Dexter and he wondered once again how she had managed to survive the grimy and bruising life of the Met . |
| 22 | She suddenly looked smaller , all defiance gone . |
| 23 | Looking up at Ellie , Mrs McMahon suddenly gave a little start , and , to Ellie 's astonishment , she suddenly looked wary . |
| 24 | At 67 , she only looks 57 , and she has the vitality of a mere 30-year-old . |
| 25 | ‘ No , you just look disgruntled . |
| 26 | She did n't seem to suit the fat tummy and at the end , she just looked awful . |
| 27 | She just looked thick , same as she always does . ’ |
| 28 | Only I appeared to notice this , the rest thought she just looked happy . |
| 29 | And if you come in there looking like hell , then they say , my God , look at her , she just looks terrible . |
| 30 | Gently disengaging himself he walked on and saw Lord John Rossendale waiting to present himself and , with him , a young , pretty and under-dressed girl who somehow looked familiar . |