Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 2 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 3 | Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown . |
| 4 | Her loose yellow hair and the white hospital nightgown made her look like a sick child . |
| 5 | Beneath her mink she wore a blue dress which made her look like an overgrown Girl Guide . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sarah guessed she must be James 's wife , and thought she looked like the pink jelly which wobbled on a dish near the salmon . |
| 13 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 14 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 15 | Did she look like a criminal or something ? |
| 16 | To do my family credit , no one actually said I looked like an animated barber 's pole . |
| 17 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 18 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 19 | Two men were seen running from the area , and one witness said they looked like the two accused . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That 's why he was in a white jacket ( I remember that you said he looked like a phoney dentist in a toothpaste ad ) . |