Example sentences of "[pron] looked [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 2 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 3 | I looked tranquil , contained . |
| 4 | I suppose I looked sad . |
| 5 | Of course I looked sad . |
| 6 | I was worried because I looked small , but it put me at ease knowing everything was all right inside . |
| 7 | I looked awful and felt awful most of the time . |
| 8 | And I looked right , that was the trouble . |
| 9 | I looked deep , but I could n't see his soul . |
| 10 | And , did continue to get professional help after that , but I think she was actually one of the factors that sent me further down , by telling me I looked well ! |
| 11 | I looked fantastic ! |
| 12 | It was red and frilly , and I thought I looked terrific . |
| 13 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 14 | I felt better , I looked better , I di I did n't feel , my skin was better , my hair come back , it was just marvellous for me ! |
| 15 | I looked ridiculous . |
| 16 | Looking back , I looked hideous ! |
| 17 | Selling Hitler : ‘ I looked hideous — I keep getting these wacky roles ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 19 | heard something on the radio , he said , oh will you still love me in a year 's time , so I looked That 's how I am , horrible to him really it 's worse than being married . |
| 20 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 21 | Besides , I looked all of it over as soon as I saw it , persuaded the caretaker there to show us around . ’ |
| 22 | I looked all around for the fandango dancer to appear but she kept well clear . |
| 23 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 24 | I did the catalogue so I looked all the information up with through the three to do that . |
| 25 | I had to wash my hair too , before I went out , I looked such a mess . |
| 26 | He was a choirboy at St Paul 's Cathedral , where he had his first starring role , leading a processional , picked to do so , he believed , ‘ because I looked such a cherub ’ . |
| 27 | I looked first into the dining-room window . |
| 28 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 29 | That 's one thing I wish I looked good in sports cl Sara looks good in sports clothes . |
| 30 | My face had that closed concentration of the solitary walker but I looked happy . |