Example sentences of "it [vb past] look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heaved myself out , folded my own blanket , lifted the boards and sorted everything till it looked how it 'd looked last night . |
| 2 | But BZW remains more pessimistic , believing the FT-SE index would have to fall to 2,200 before it started to look attractive to investors . |
| 3 | It did look nice polished . |
| 4 | It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates . |
| 5 | It did look fabulous , Belinda decided firmly , even though she did n't quite know if that person in the mirror was herself or a professional model . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , at the time it did look that way . ’ |
| 7 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 8 | its all just grey , loads of grey in it and it did n't look streaked , it did look natural . |
| 9 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 10 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 11 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 12 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 13 | It had looked promising for the tourists as openers David Boon and Mark Taylor batted confidently for the first hour to put on 38 . |
| 14 | It had been a pretty little creature , it had looked quiet and gentle and good like Oliver , but as soon as you went near it , it had turned into a clawing , spitting bundle of hate . |
| 15 | It had looked pale and puffy after her journey . |