Example sentences of "looked [adv] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 2 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 3 | Ironically it looked more like a scene from after the nuclear holocaust instead of a plea to prevent one . |
| 4 | Elinor had woken up and was trying on a black dress that looked more like a kind of solo tent than anything else . |
| 5 | it looked more like a cluster of bats in a duster |
| 6 | No ! ’ , looked more like a presenter in search of a Day-like persona than one in control of the show . |
| 7 | I am safe here , he thought : and the thought was so rare , so violent in its unexpectedness , that he looked around like a villain in a melodrama to see if anyone had overheard this God-tempting thought . |
| 8 | As guard dogs barked at rabbits in the barbed-wire-ringed grounds , Bawdsey Manor last week looked uncommonly like a place with secrets still to harbour . |