Example sentences of "[noun] look [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , at a round table , Christian Lacroix was seated with his wife , Sylvie Guillem ( now changed into a ballgown of great splendour and so contrived , with such shortness at front and fullness at back , as to make the wearer look like an emu ) , and a number of stock Parisian luminaries , like Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild . |
| 2 | Sound feminist argument usually means making the nearest male look like an idiot , which in Ellen 's case was not a very demanding task . |
| 3 | ‘ I shall have to make my encounter with the captain look like an accident . |
| 4 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 5 | I 'm referring of course to budget acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments , which are often the starting place for the next generation of guitar hero or hobbyist , or where electric guitar players look for an inexpensive diversion into arguably more expressive sounds . |
| 6 | FROM THE window of the ancient DC3 liner the highlands of Gondar look like an alien world . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear girl , you could never in your life look like an old hag , and you seem to forget that so far I 've never seen you at your best . |
| 8 | From the entrance to the church the fresco makes the flat wall behind the altar look like an apse , and only when the wall is approached is the illusion of curvature broken . |
| 9 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |