Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 2 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 4 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 5 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 6 | Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown . |
| 7 | Her loose yellow hair and the white hospital nightgown made her look like a sick child . |
| 8 | His big , red face was turned towards her , attentive in the cigarette 's glow ; his moustache , like two orange tusks , made him look like a gentle walrus . |
| 9 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 10 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 11 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 12 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 13 | Did she look like a criminal or something ? |
| 14 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 15 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 16 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 17 | He remembers how people said he looked like a wild steer , gazing about on all sides , holding his head too high , and how they said his brain was buckish , and totally devoid of sober reasoning power . |
| 18 | That 's why he was in a white jacket ( I remember that you said he looked like a phoney dentist in a toothpaste ad ) . |
| 19 | Billy suggested they look for a shady spot for the picnic in the covert they were approaching . |