Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] look [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 2 | At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies . |
| 3 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 4 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 5 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 6 | The bottom shelf was wider and it held a square white machine which looked like a document shredder . |
| 7 | A stunned silence greeted her appearance , every eye turned to watch the progress of the girl who looked like a goddess . |
| 8 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 9 | It was a joke , really , because the night detective of the hotel , this guy in his mid 20s with long blond hair who looked like a hippy with beads on , turned out to be a member of the Vice Squad . |
| 10 | We had tea in the dining-room , a depressing room which looked into a court . |
| 11 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
| 12 | Once behind the closed door of the dressing room we looked for a way out , but there was n't one . |
| 13 | But when he put it on , for a moment he looked like a prince . |
| 14 | From the outside it looked like a bank ( and with good reason , if Wayne was to be believed : ‘ That guy , ’ Wayne said , ‘ he 's raking it in ’ ) . |
| 15 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 16 | White terns and tropic birds occasionally flew above the canopy of trees , and in the evening what looked like a flock of ravens soaring high above the hills turned out to be fruit-bats or ‘ flying foxes ’ . |
| 17 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 18 | it 's meant to be a bonsai tree which looks like a tree but it 's only very small like that high . |
| 19 | There was one general 's wife who looked like a peasant in disguise and another woman whose get-up produced ill-concealed mirth among the assembly , but an icy glance from the Empress soon punished us for it . |
| 20 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 21 | On a good day he looked like a mixture of Rod Stewart , Steve Jones and Buddy Holly . |
| 22 | For a while it looked like a possibility for national attention . |
| 23 | For a while it looked like a model performance . |
| 24 | As he stepped back into the circle of dimming green light issuing from the door of the transmat booth he looked for a moment like some bizarre demon that Francis had summoned . |
| 25 | Everytime I receive Wimpey News I look for a mention of where I work . |
| 26 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 27 | Last one this is the these are reports incidentally by er European doctors working in China at the time Another desperate case that we treated for nothing was that of a young man who looked like a skeleton . |
| 28 | He spotted the Party 's chief agent ( whom he did not like ) together with a woman , and a man who looked like a car park attendant . |
| 29 | In attack we looked like a team without any ideas . |
| 30 | ‘ In the brochure it looks like a picture of Disneyland in the bush with mud huts with all mod cons . |