Example sentences of "looked [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father and Charles appeared deeply preoccupied in finishing their pheasant , and Lucy just looked acutely embarrassed . |
| 2 | Colourist Maria added golden lights to add texture and movement to her hair , which before had looked rather solid due to its thickness . |
| 3 | Felicity still looked rather piqued at his assumption of her ignorance of drink lore . |
| 4 | She did n't reveal what she was feeling , she just looked rather caught and aggressive . |
| 5 | If he had looked rather large and strong from a distance , the effect was even more overpowering close up . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you want to know about the children 's clothes ? ’ she asked , adding that they had looked rather sweet . |
| 7 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 8 | Both the man and the whey-faced girl had looked remarkably English ; and whatever nationality they really were , I knew they did n't live on the island . |
| 9 | The radical change from the romantic picturesqueness of the Elizabethan manor house to the measured symmetry of South Luffenham Hall must have upset many of the more traditional locals , for this house would have looked daringly modern when it was built . |
| 10 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 11 | Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action . |
| 12 | But Gooch 's hold on the captaincy deliberately loosened by the selectors a few weeks ago has never looked less secure . |
| 13 | Peter noticed that Luke and Flora both looked extremely happy , and that Anna looked desperately tired . |
| 14 | The girls en masse looked extremely smart especially in the summer , when they wore cream straw boaters , having a bright red band , white blouses , navy blue skirts and white gloves . |
| 15 | In Italy 's 1-0 loss to Brazil in their prestige encounter in Bologna , young Baggio rarely looked much better than your Uncle Jimmy in a Sunday park game , let alone like Zico , Maradona et al . |
| 16 | For the background of this design I found a rough raw silk which I felt looked much better than the more conventional old linen , but one could always choose one of the linen-covered mountboards that are available in similar colourings , or even hessian or plain linen . |
| 17 | At the time , VCRs with their programmed record capabilities , probably looked much better value for money . |
| 18 | Would Beccaria 's programme have looked much different in practice ? |
| 19 | The gulf between the humble club player and the international has never looked so great . |
| 20 | She had never looked so well , and knew it . |
| 21 | And she had looked so well since her marriage , so calm and composed and so Well , not matronly , at any rate , as wicked Lizzie Braithwaite had suggested . |
| 22 | The tailored suit has never looked so good , with a fabulous explosion of colour and style happening this spring . |
| 23 | The interior of the Lift , even in this wrecked condition , had never looked so good . |
| 24 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 25 | We must have looked so gormless ; we certainly looked it in our passport photos . |
| 26 | Passing the two horses that had looked so sad and bedraggled that first day , she lingered to watch them . |
| 27 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 28 | Indeed , he had never looked so awake , all but shivering with awareness . |
| 29 | His skin , which had looked so moist and fungoid , was now smooth and clear , his flesh firm . |
| 30 | It would have looked so odd . |