Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] look like a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
2 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
3 | Finally , Mrs Killea turned what had looked like a hopeless contest into a 51-49 victory . |
4 | What had looked like a smooth expanse of grey-green wood was , close to , a maze of rough bark , roots and clumps of moss . |
5 | Remarkably , they turn what had looked like a dead duck of an evening — a half-full club of uninterested Finns busy soaking up the DJ 's Toto records — into an event . |