Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes .
2 She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank .
3 She also looked like a total wreck !
4 Did she really look like a startled deer ?
5 For those of you currently looking after an ill or disabled relative , the Benefits Agency — the DSS to you and me — has issued a new leaflet .
6 We always look for a local engineering partner , with whom we can build up a strong working relationship , to provide knowledge of local practices and statutory requirements .
7 Unfortunately this is a problem which faces both kites er and ospreys and , and some other birds of prey , so er we always look for a few losses , but we hope that nevertheless , in a good season like this , the birds will breed well enough to produce good numbers of young .
8 We also looked for a geographical spread of writers .
9 John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number .
10 If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family .
11 I think he 's trying to look all grown up and that , but he do n't really — he just looks like a young kid trying to be grown up .
12 Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’
13 In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them .
14 Then carry the bird in uncut side first so it still looks like a whole turkey .
15 Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old !
16 He still looked like a romantic lead .
17 Yet he still looked like an academic , or a businessman , with those thick-rimmed glasses and the glossy hair carefully sleeked back over his ears .
18 It also looks like an original engine if you wish to preserve originality .
19 He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit .
20 A specimen of basalt taken from a cold lava flow , however , is not a particularly inspiring object at all — in most cases , it probably looks like a dirty black lump of clinker .
21 It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility .
22 THIS BUSINESS WITH the yellow cabs , it surely looks like an unimprovable deal .
23 It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit .
24 It certainly looks like a friendly Mickey-take of old rubber lips .
25 Many will be tempted ; few are likely to take what still looks like a suicidal step .
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