Example sentences of "he looked [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strains of the last fortnight were catching up with him , and he looked every one of his sixty-four years . |
| 2 | She thought he looked a pathetic figure of a man . |
| 3 | He looked a real mess at the airport , and I do n't think we helped matters . |
| 4 | He looked a genuine danger from the home turn , but mistakes at the last two — a terrible one at the final obstacle — let him down , and he had no more to give on the flat . |
| 5 | Wrapped in his white cotton sheet , perched on a chair and peering at us over his steel-rimmed spectacles , he looked a frail , incongruous figure . |
| 6 | When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes , he looked a lost cause . |
| 7 | Relaxed like this , he looked a gentle , tender man , no traces of the irritability with which he occasionally treated her . |
| 8 | ‘ He looked a young chap , mad keen and so on . |
| 9 | Often they axed the only approving comments , so that he looked a complete bastard . |
| 10 | His clothes were quite scruffy and he looked a complete villain . |
| 11 | He looked a right Charlie in those tails and striped trousers . |
| 12 | He looked a right pill . |
| 13 | He looked a crumbling shell of a man . |
| 14 | I know Claudia 's been a good stepmother-she 's the kindest woman in the world — but I thought he looked a sad sort of a boy . |
| 15 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 16 | He looked a pleasant enough young man , and genuinely concerned . |
| 17 | He looked a happy man , soft-voiced , content . |
| 18 | He looked a pale shadow of the commanding centre half who helped Denmark win the European championship , but said : ‘ I wo n't crack under the pressure . |
| 19 | Lit faintly by the moonlight and with the mighty peaks behind him , he looked a quiet , impressive figure . |
| 20 | He looked a tough and burly man , and Joe thought he was vaguely familiar . |
| 21 | But friends said after meeting bubbly Alison , he looked a changed man |
| 22 | And from the pavement he looked a big , decently dressed young man , for his head and shoulders were well above the back of the seat . |
| 23 | He looked a big strong man . |
| 24 | He looked a different person then , and Mary thought how much nicer people looked when they smiled . |
| 25 | He looked no happier when the Kent innings resumed , playing and missing several times before getting a touch to a magnificent Marshall delivery and providing Bobby Parks with the first of two catches . |
| 26 | He looked an awful fool . ’ |
| 27 | When he did appear , just before opening night he looked an impressive figure in his expensive clothes . |
| 28 | He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit , silk shirt and tie , and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet . |
| 29 | He looked an ineffectual fool , and in some ways he was both ineffectual and foolish . |
| 30 | He looked an imposing figure . |