Example sentences of "[pron] looked the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere I looked the Government was involved . |
| 2 | At least I looked the same in one way . |
| 3 | They both wore bemused , slightly stunned expressions and I am pretty sure I looked the same . |
| 4 | Cos I looked the other day . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh yes , it did , ’ said Lili , ‘ though , mind you , I think it highly unlikely that anyone would tell you on your wedding day that you looked the most frightful frump — not , ’ she added hastily , ‘ that you did . |
| 6 | She looked the same as before . |
| 7 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 8 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 9 | She could easily have noble blood , she looked the sort . |
| 10 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 11 | She looked the epitome of elegance and good taste , with the confidence of a woman who knows she is beautiful . |
| 12 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 13 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 14 | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother , although she looked the elder by some years . |
| 15 | She looked the sort of girl who is so often a trademark of California — a girl who could dance all night , yet play tennis or golf , ride or swim the next day without the slightest effort . |
| 16 | In her designer tracksuit of vivid mauve and gold , her Reebok bumpers and man 's leather flying jacket , she looked the complete opposite of her parents ' idea of dressed up . |
| 17 | she looked the word up . |
| 18 | She looked the same as when she had been twenty-nine , before the birth of the child . |
| 19 | She looked the part . |
| 20 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 21 | Then she looked the German squarely in the eye . |
| 22 | As it was , I nodded and made for the door ; she looked the sort of woman who won protracted lawsuits . |
| 23 | She looked the sort who would think more of her appearance than of anything else . |
| 24 | The photograph was of a woman with a broad face who looked the camera squarely in the eye without a smile . |
| 25 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 26 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 27 | To him they looked the same . |
| 28 | They looked the real thing to me . ’ |
| 29 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 30 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |