Example sentences of "have looked a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 2 | He has looked a tremendous prospect on both starts to date , and will relish the extra furlong here . |
| 3 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 4 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 5 | I must have looked a little confused , for Miss Kenton then said : ‘ Mr Stevens , he really is in a poor state . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 8 | He must have looked a sight but he did n't think so then . |
| 9 | We must have looked a comical sight in those days : a boy and a bird ‘ dancing ’ up the road — two steps , stop , turn , two steps , turn , stop … |
| 10 | For surely back in Port Talbot a smart young man would have looked a notch or two up the ring-ridden ladder of class and hauled himself up — in his pride — one or two places . |
| 11 | Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs . |
| 12 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 13 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | In this context Cuba , with its exceptionally high dependence on imported oil ( which accounts for approaching two-thirds of the island 's total energy consumption ) and its sophisticated modern refining capacity ( installed by Shell , Esso and Texaco ) , must have looked a promising market for Soviet oil . |
| 15 | I often wonder what the casual passer-by would have made of us , as we must have looked a really piratical bunch with piles of American cigarettes and Polish vodka spread around our decks . |
| 16 | ‘ I was glad she accepted because otherwise I would have looked a right banana in front of all those tourists . ’ |
| 17 | Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched . |
| 18 | It must have looked a beautiful sight ! |
| 19 | If Seve Ballesteros had looked a winner all along in 1979 , and certainly looked likely to lift the claret jug from a long way out , Dave 's second Open success was not so cut-and-dried . |
| 20 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 21 | And it had looked a perfectly normal tree from the outside , too . |
| 22 | Impressive in winning both starts last year , Pembroke had looked a certain winner of the Feilden Stakes on his reappearance until faltering near the end of the nine furlongs contest . |
| 23 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
| 24 | They 've looked a different team these last few weeks so what magic has manager Denis Smith been working |