Example sentences of "it look [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 2 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 3 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
| 4 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 5 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 6 | It looks very like a small gorilla and though it appears to be tailless , like an ape , it is in fact a monkey , closely related to the macaques . |
| 7 | ‘ It had lost all the appearance of a sexual implement ; it looked disgustingly like a cheap gadget from the five and ten cent store , like a bright-coloured piece of fishing tackle minus the bait . ’ |
| 8 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 9 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 10 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |
| 11 | It looked more like a public building or a sanatorium . |
| 12 | It looked so like a dead thing . |