Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 2 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 3 | First , that I look awful and , second , the reason why . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not just luck that I look OK , ’ she says . |
| 5 | I think they mean that I look fat and ugly and I wish they would keep their remarks to themselves . |
| 6 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 7 | She thought that she looked good , and she felt bloody good , and she was n't going to let a telephone call from the bank manager interfere with her seldom-found excitement . |
| 8 | She looked at herself in the mirror , knowing that she looked good . |
| 9 | It was a shame that she looked such a mess — this was hardly the best way to meet a prospective client — but once she 'd explained her predicament … well , then everything would be all right . |
| 10 | She wore a leather coat and boots and his first thought was that she looked Slavonic , a Russian or a Pole . |
| 11 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
| 13 | They reassured her that she looked beautiful , and she knew they had bought the dress for her . |
| 14 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 15 | I remember looking into Mrs Monro 's face and seeing that she looked concerned and being surprised . |
| 16 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 17 | I do n't suppose she was more than forty , yet — It was n't that she looked old , but there was something about her , as if she was somehow apart from what was going on . ’ |
| 18 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 19 | The other woman nodded non-committally , and Lissa noticed that she looked pale and tense . |
| 20 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 21 | Rain thought she was trying for a dramatic effect , but she was a poor actress and the result was that she looked petulant . |
| 22 | She had demanded then whether she looked upset , and they 'd had to agree that she looked calm enough . |
| 23 | She was wearing her afternoon uniform and Matey thought that she looked charming in it ; it was not surprising , after all , that Dr Neil had a soft spot for her . |
| 24 | No one ever said they liked her hair that way , or that she looked lovely when she smiled … |
| 25 | Annabel had wanted to hug her and tell her that she looked lovely . |
| 26 | She worked as an assistant in a dress shop and it was important that she looked smart . |
| 27 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 28 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Sit back in the chair so that you look confident . |
| 30 | Confidence is strengthened by knowing that you look right . |