Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 2 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 3 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 4 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 5 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 6 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 7 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 8 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 9 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 10 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
| 11 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 12 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 13 | The clouds broke a little and the sun that had previously looked like a tarnished shilling in a bowl of porridge came out and lit the sweep of Wensleydale below the cairn . |