Example sentences of "they look [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Must be pretty tough for them when they look at other lasses . ’
2 The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand .
3 They look like dull pieces of glass , with a milky , opaque surface .
4 We 've seen a couple of their machines briefly , as they passed through the office on their way for testing , they look like competent machines .
5 In form they look like long worms with two small horny shells at one end .
6 In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps .
7 With their coiled energy , jumps , louche shoulder work , insinuating hips and limber backs , they look like real dancers .
8 These are played by four quadruple amputee performers , one a woman , so that they look like genuine robots , not ‘ men in suits ’ , yet are believable as characters .
9 People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context .
10 I could make out two soldiers standing in a slit trench , they look like Airborne troops judging by the type of steel helmet they are wearing .
11 they look like damaged packages ,
12 This is because they look like three sixth-formers farting around in their bedroom with a drum machine , busy drowning in a prog-rock flood of their own ideas .
13 Today , as the pavilions lie empty and neglected , they look like ossified tents — silk turned to stone .
14 They look like large spurs , really claws , on either side of the cloaca or vent .
15 Yeah , she 's got like your school not there black , they 're white ones , lace-up ones , they look like little pumps .
16 They look like pink flowers on there do n't they ?
17 They look like overgrown kids strapped to their chairs for a penance .
18 Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres .
19 Wedded to their reflections in the waters that surround them , they look like giant gemstones set in the blue .
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