Example sentences of "looked [prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 2 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 3 | The stream was marked with a blue line and what looked like a child 's drawing of a ladder lay across it at one point . |
| 4 | The air smelt faintly of incense and , of course , that strange smell of faded flowers which emanated from the figure dressed in black who squatted beside Wolsey : Doctor Agrippa , supreme practitioner of the black arts though he looked like a mummer 's version of Friar Tuck in some masque about Robin Hood . |
| 5 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 6 | Set out on the benches were models of various shapes : a globe , a long horn , a ring-doughnut , and one that looked like a horse 's saddle . |
| 7 | These were made of white , mouldcast , salt-glazed stoneware with spouts resembling the open mouth of a fish , while the handle looked like a fish 's tail . |
| 8 | ‘ Bas said it looked like a tart 's bedroom , ’ said Dancer cheerfully . |
| 9 | The settlement looked like a workers ' victory . |
| 10 | It was … what looked like a pig 's head on a stick . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Mr Cottle finally gave in and took a piece of bread and butter , his hand trembling so that the vaunted delicacy looked like a ship 's flag in a breeze . |
| 12 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 13 | THE POLICY overhaul was running smoothly and the conference looked like an adman 's dream . |
| 14 | ‘ I know , ’ he said , and seemed to look at her as if to gauge how love looked in a person 's eyes . |
| 15 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |