Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
2 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
3 | She also looked like a total wreck ! |
4 | Did she really look like a startled deer ? |
5 | For those of you currently looking after an ill or disabled relative , the Benefits Agency — the DSS to you and me — has issued a new leaflet . |
6 | We always look for a local engineering partner , with whom we can build up a strong working relationship , to provide knowledge of local practices and statutory requirements . |
7 | Unfortunately this is a problem which faces both kites er and ospreys and , and some other birds of prey , so er we always look for a few losses , but we hope that nevertheless , in a good season like this , the birds will breed well enough to produce good numbers of young . |
8 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
9 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
10 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
11 | I think he 's trying to look all grown up and that , but he do n't really — he just looks like a young kid trying to be grown up . |
12 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |
13 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
14 | Then carry the bird in uncut side first so it still looks like a whole turkey . |
15 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
16 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
17 | Yet he still looked like an academic , or a businessman , with those thick-rimmed glasses and the glossy hair carefully sleeked back over his ears . |
18 | It also looks like an original engine if you wish to preserve originality . |
19 | He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit . |
20 | A specimen of basalt taken from a cold lava flow , however , is not a particularly inspiring object at all — in most cases , it probably looks like a dirty black lump of clinker . |
21 | It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility . |
22 | THIS BUSINESS WITH the yellow cabs , it surely looks like an unimprovable deal . |
23 | It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit . |
24 | It certainly looks like a friendly Mickey-take of old rubber lips . |