Example sentences of "looks so " in BNC.

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1 I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it , because it looks so unusual .
2 She looks so pretty .
3 I do n't really mind , cos it looks so nice in the sun , but I 'd rather it was n't so blummin cold .
4 It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off .
5 Everything looks so high from here , and I 'm all squashed and thin like I 'm paper and people can walk over me and it would n't hurt and they would n't know I was there .
6 The fact that it looks so good is a credit at least as much to the man behind the camera , Andrew Dunn , as to Potter 's fledgling talent as director .
7 He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 .
8 This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights .
9 For a man who always looks so morose when batting — ‘ I know I look a miserable sod out there , but I ca n't help it , ’ he once said — and whose captaincy had previously seemed rather ordinary , it was a revelation .
10 I have never seen one so close before , and it looks so bold , and bossy .
11 And he looks so damned harmless .
12 And Chris Patten — who admittedly has a killing schedule , helicoptering daily between Bath and London — looks so dishevelled .
13 He looks so miserable that for once I do n't kick Heather on the way back to my desk .
14 The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century .
15 Just at the present time everything looks so fresh .
16 Other people found his looks so engaging that it is sad to think that he was deeply conscious of noses , especially when he was worried about Jewishness .
17 I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising .
18 The Cam always looks so peaceful , especially so on a winter 's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight .
19 If I stand up to her , she looks so sad and that makes me feel wicked .
20 But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer .
21 Its linear diameter is I 392 000 km ; it looks so small only because it is at a distance of nearly 150 million km from us .
22 And he looks so surly , so shifty — he wo n't meet my eyes … ‘
23 Yes , I 'd like to , it looks so wonderful at night .
24 I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body .
25 He had that high-coloured English complexion , which looks so much better with a suntan .
26 It all looks so different to me , she thought .
27 John Major always looks so dowdy , Terry Stamp tries too hard and if I were him I 'd slash my wrists . ’
28 ‘ It looks so different , ’ she said .
29 An Italian talent scout said : ‘ She looks so ordinary .
30 and how the future looks so bleak and grim
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