Example sentences of "give it a [adj] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 2 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look . |
| 4 | It is particularly pretty as the flowers deepen as they age , giving it a two-toned look . |
| 5 | So a tortoiseshell cat is in reality a cat that is part black and part red tabby , giving it a tri-coloured look . |
| 6 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 7 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 8 | The preponderance of mud huts with their semi-grey roofs of grass thatching gave it an ashen look during the dry season . |