Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I looked the other day . |
| 2 | At least I looked the same in one way . |
| 3 | They both wore bemused , slightly stunned expressions and I am pretty sure I looked the same . |
| 4 | In her designer tracksuit of vivid mauve and gold , her Reebok bumpers and man 's leather flying jacket , she looked the complete opposite of her parents ' idea of dressed up . |
| 5 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 6 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 7 | She looked the same as before . |
| 8 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 9 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 10 | She looked the same as when she had been twenty-nine , before the birth of the child . |
| 11 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 12 | They looked the real thing to me . ’ |
| 13 | To him they looked the same . |
| 14 | ‘ It looked the other way round to me , ’ said Tommy . |
| 15 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 16 | Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different . |
| 17 | He looked the two horses over , then glanced up at Kelly . |
| 18 | He looked the other way , staring at TV aerials as if he was doing a project on them . |
| 19 | He looked the powerful prince , his face dark and swarthy like an Italian 's , thick , sensuous lips , a beaked nose and lustrous dark eyes . |
| 20 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 21 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |
| 22 | A long , lean man with an ascetic face , he looked the celibate monk he had always been , but in private conversation he was unpompous , outgoing , witty . |
| 23 | I coughed , and he looked up ; a grey little man with spectacles , standing there in the mud surrounded by the squabbling pigs , he looked the very antithesis of magnificent immensity . |
| 24 | While he looked the back door opened , and a woman came out , calling over her shoulder to someone in the house , as she came . |
| 25 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
| 26 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 27 | Even if he looked the same , she could not remember him . |