Example sentences of "looked too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 2 | But the trees to the right and left , purposely made brownish at the beginning when the setting sun was dominant , now looked too rich and not dark enough . |
| 3 | The round-headed silhouette of the Scottish Fold gained it many admirers , although some felt it looked too sad . |
| 4 | It looked too frail for his hand . |
| 5 | They all looked too tired to be bothered with any joking . |
| 6 | They 'd been builder-restored as a unit , and they looked too picturesque to be true . |
| 7 | The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat . |
| 8 | She looked too young to be a mother . |
| 9 | Elaine : ‘ I thought Suzannah looked too small for this , though it was nice and soft . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 11 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |
| 12 | They looked tired , and the great , empty coffin they carried between them looked too much for their wasted strength to bear . |
| 13 | On that day she decided he looked too much like a poet to be a good one , a view at variance with her view of Hodgkiss , who looked too unlike what he was , profound thinker , Oxford don , to be satisfactory either . |
| 14 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 15 | But during the week immediately following the meeting two fortuitous things happened to the chemists that at the time looked too good opportunities to miss . |
| 16 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 17 | Penry Vaughan in this mood looked too dangerous to cross . |
| 18 | His head had flopped to one side and the thin neck , stretched so still that she could see the pulse beat , looked too fragile to bear the weight of his head . |
| 19 | He thought Morrissey might think he looked too weird . |
| 20 | He was older , pale-skinned and looked too thin to be a welterweight , but the right cross that had put his younger opponent down had belied his looks . |
| 21 | Anyway , Fagg looked too furious to speak to anyone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You looked too lovely to wake , so I did n't . |
| 23 | The armholes looked too short , the sleeves did n't look as if they would fit and the bust size was nowhere near the size that was required . |
| 24 | I thought the flysheet looked too short and I worried that rain would get into the inner . |
| 25 | She looked too plain and sensible to be a ghost . |
| 26 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 27 | He looked too uninterested , and when he saw her watching him he avoided her eyes . |
| 28 | She would advise a customer not to have that : it looked too old , or it smelt . |
| 29 | The rotting wooden walkway looked too perilous to risk any injury so I continued on my way to the shed , now some seventy or eighty yards away . |
| 30 | Perhaps his trousers looked too smart . |