Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 2 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 3 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 5 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 6 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 7 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 8 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 11 | Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown . |
| 12 | Her loose yellow hair and the white hospital nightgown made her look like a sick child . |
| 13 | Beneath her mink she wore a blue dress which made her look like an overgrown Girl Guide . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 18 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 19 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 20 | Sarah guessed she must be James 's wife , and thought she looked like the pink jelly which wobbled on a dish near the salmon . |
| 21 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 22 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 23 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you look at the two letters together ? ’ he asked . |
| 25 | Did you look in the other one , the nineteen ninety edition ? |
| 26 | Did she look like a criminal or something ? |
| 27 | But how did it look to the light beams ? |
| 28 | To do my family credit , no one actually said I looked like an animated barber 's pole . |
| 29 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 30 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |