Example sentences of "[noun] looked [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 2 | The Lord Willington looked the sort of place into which dishonest rascals might put their inconvenient relations in order to get them out of the way : uncles with the DTs , incontinent aunts , senile grandads , and cousins who 'd been odd since they were born . |
| 3 | poor Mr and Mrs Flokati ; owning the horse looked an agony , not a joy . |
| 4 | One set of wing-tips was a mess , and both wings on that side looked a bit bent back ; otherwise , nothing . |
| 5 | The bright blue eyes looked a bit bloodshot , and there was a flush of colour across the cheekbones . |
| 6 | Poor old boy looked a bit tearful after they 'd talked . |
| 7 | Fairclough looked a lot happier playing alongside him , Dorigo was as Dorigish as ever , and Kelly did reasonably well at right-back . |
| 8 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 9 | ‘ It has n't changed much , though the hall looked a lot smaller than I remembered . ’ |
| 10 | Joiner Paul , 30 , said after the ceremony at Oldham , Lancs : ‘ Kim looked a picture . |
| 11 | Eva looked a picture . |
| 12 | ‘ I was thinking the lady looked a mite like my boy , ’ said the yeoman , slowly , unperturbably , like a dray-horse picking its way through a bog . |
| 13 | When the dealer arrived at the Gallery , he was escorted to Dr Bock 's office , where the director looked the picture over carefully . |
| 14 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 15 | She chuckled as Theda looked a question . |
| 16 | Indurain looked the master of his former captain , Pedro Delgado , who won the Tour in 1988 , faltered since that victory but may be on the way back to the top . |
| 17 | Prestbury 's Nick Baglin looked a class ahead of the rest in the U-18 event , as he secured the title with a dramatic three-set victory over Norwich 's Jim Carrara . |
| 18 | Penry , who had changed his rubber boots and yellow waterproof for heavy shoes and suede jacket before entering the hospital , ushered Leonora outside , agreeing with Sister Concepta that his charge looked a bit peaky . |
| 19 | Sunderland had a new manager to show off … a big crowd to shout them on … and the bounce of the ball … but Swindon still came out on top … mind you when Shaun Taylor gave away a penalty in the first half … things looked a bit dodgy … |
| 20 | ‘ The eggs looked a bit … ’ |
| 21 | For most of the last mile , in fact , the race looked a match between Northern Jinks and Kilhallon Castle . |
| 22 | She had thought they could have fruit for dessert but the bananas looked a bit black and sorry , and there were only two ( bruised ) peaches left . |
| 23 | Paula looked every inch a model these days , Arlene thought with a touch of proprietorial pride . |
| 24 | Lachlan looked the women over . |
| 25 | A first win of the season looked a possibility for Stocktonians when they led visiting Grindon 42–41 at the break . |
| 26 | He noticed that in the photographs of his childhood the rooms looked a lot less furnished . |
| 27 | They said my father looked a bit like Clark Gable , bold and bad , by all accounts a big guy . |
| 28 | Mrs Frizzell looked a bit doubtful , and then said yes , he was , especially when he got going . |
| 29 | It was the same polls that said Neil Kinnock looked a winner . |
| 30 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |