Example sentences of "[adv] look like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 4 | There 's no point in phoning , nobody else 's mother will be phoning , they 're all allowed to stay without any of this fuss , I 'll just look like a complete idiot , and anyway , what do you think 's going to happen , we 're not going to have an orgy or anything . ’ |
| 5 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 6 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 7 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 8 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 9 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 10 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 11 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 12 | And despite being stuffed full of capability and battery , they 're light enough ( 8kg ) to sit on the desktop and compact enough ( 15 by 10 by 27mm ) not to look like a Bulgarian chip fryer . |
| 13 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
| 14 | The pool filter usually looks like a deep tray . |
| 15 | A merger between the computer side and the proposed Silicon Graphics Inc-MIPS Computer Systems Inc still looks like a logical development . |
| 16 | Many will be tempted ; few are likely to take what still looks like a suicidal step . |
| 17 | Then carry the bird in uncut side first so it still looks like a whole turkey . |
| 18 | Hardly looking like a suburban station in the densely populated Croydon area of south London is Coombe road which closed at the end of the 1982/3 timetable with the ending of services on the Elmers End–Sanderstead line . |
| 19 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 20 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 23 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 24 | Heads Up look like a fun sort of band , all headscarves and neat little funk-metal riffs . |
| 25 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | She also looked like a total wreck ! |
| 28 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 29 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 30 | It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility . |