Example sentences of "looked [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke looked tremendously happy . |
| 2 | Indeed , even in our own garden , in the centre of a rose bed , there was a small slab which looked suspiciously Roman ; I am sure in the dim and distant past it had been filched from the wall . |
| 3 | The Bees missed a penalty and had a Marcus Gayle goal disallowed , while the Tranmere winner looked suspiciously off-side . |
| 4 | That was really funny and he looked suspiciously close to laughter . |
| 5 | His orderly looked politely doubtful . |
| 6 | Major Harper looked politely surprised . |
| 7 | To them , no doubt , I looked laughably dowdy . |
| 8 | he looked right stupid he did . |
| 9 | When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed . |
| 10 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
| 11 | Sophia thought this looked rather odd and had offered to lend her a string of cultured pearls , but the beads seemed to go with the piled up hair style and the long pointed-toed shoes that Penelope was wearing . |
| 12 | Helen came in towards the end , and , with no outside calls for her to go to , Joanna looked rather depressed . |
| 13 | Miss Kenton looked rather upset . |
| 14 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 15 | There was even a well equipped playground which could have been dropped into any English park almost unnoticed but which looked rather incongruous in the centre of a Mexican prison complex . |
| 16 | He also looked rather young . |
| 17 | Giles looked rather shamefaced . |
| 18 | She looked rather queasy , and very anxious . |
| 19 | The Conservative victory under the slogan ‘ Set The People Free ’ that October looked rather hollow when you examined the figures and discovered that more people had actually voted Labour than Conservative . |
| 20 | Oxford 's bowling was never threatening and looked rather ordinary when Glendenen and Parker began to hurry after a quiet first half-hour . |
| 21 | It looked rather obscene , particularly as the word ‘ Come ’ showed through backwards from the other side of the page . |
| 22 | Adam looked rather shattered . |
| 23 | It looked rather clumsy but , when I swung it , it felt quite light . |
| 24 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 25 | Ralph Maltote proved to be a stout young man who looked rather ridiculous in his boiled leather jerkin , military leggings and boots . |
| 26 | The tank looked rather one-level , with most of the activity being on the substrate so I added six Silver Hatchets and six Spotted Headstanders , Chilodus punctatus . |
| 27 | It looked rather bare with just bogwood and few rocks for decoration . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought , as a matter of fact , ’ said Gay , ‘ that he looked rather nice . ’ |
| 29 | They looked rather nice . |
| 30 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |