Example sentences of "he looked the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |
| 2 | Immaculately groomed in seaside holiday costume , he looked the preface ‘ dapper young gentleman ’ . |
| 3 | With his highly polished boots and gaiters , corduroy trousers and tweed jacket , he looked the epitome of authority . |
| 4 | Like so many Victorians he looked the part , his face possessing an authority worthy of a minor prophet . |
| 5 | From his tweed jacket to his patterned brogues he looked the part perfectly : not the usual designer mix from expensive shops in Milan or Rome , but the real thing , as plain and heavy as Zen imagined the English climate , character and cuisine to be . |
| 6 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 7 | He looked the way all the Forth army looked now , with brown keel-marks under his eyes and his riddled skin beaten like metal . |
| 8 | He looked one way , then he looked the other . |
| 9 | he looked the sort she 'd label nice young man — |
| 10 | His fingers were still round Tug 's wrists as he looked the Woman sharply up and down . |