Example sentences of "and look [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |
| 2 | He is not said to have been holy , and looks like a successful career churchman , often occupied with the king 's business , and willing to contravene church law by practising pluralism . |
| 3 | In light of the fact that she appeared to be on the hunt , and looked like a blonde bombshell , exactly what was the man asking her ? |
| 4 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 5 | She was six feet tall and looked like a gorgeous transvestite , possibly the beneficiary of some dirty-minded sex-change operation , over in California there . |
| 6 | ‘ I have always feared the Dark Ireland , ’ said Dierdriu , and her eyes were huge now , and looking on a terrible possibility . |
| 7 | ‘ If only one were going to court freely and looking to a bright future — 't is different for you ! ’ |
| 8 | Cooper , knocked out by Floyd Patterson in his previous fight and looking for a gentle return to the ring , took on Boston Jacobs , an unknown New Yorker . |
| 9 | Municipal Mutual , Britain 's ninth biggest insurer with 1,500,000 policyholders , is in difficulty and looking for a new partner . |
| 10 | Slightly insane and looking for a good laugh ? |
| 11 | In the afternoon haze , a tall mountain suddenly appeared , surrounded by rock walls and spires and looking like a faint fortress from the 11th century . |
| 12 | I made the pretence of patting my pockets and looking like a total cretin . |
| 13 | Imre Makowecz 's Hungarian pavilion , all timber and looking like a rustic church , is original , economical and ( most important ) says something about Hungary . |
| 14 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 15 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 16 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 17 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 18 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 19 | Passing Wattisham we identify Stowmarket ( R ) and look for a specific road/railway junction ( S ) , which turns up exactly as we expected it . |
| 20 | So let's treat this as a political problem and look for a political solution . ’ |
| 21 | These verses ( from chapter 2 ) I received personally as an encouragement to ‘ Arise ’ and look for a new way of following Christ and preaching the gospel . |
| 22 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 23 | They are well aware of the amount of variation possible in ‘ scientifically produced ’ data and look with a certain scepticism upon laboratory results , especially when they diverge markedly from their own intuition or their expectations based on past knowledge . |
| 24 | Gamma and 6 Equulei are close together , and look like a wide double , though they are not actually associated with each other . |
| 25 | Then he 'd bounce a little with his other leg out straight behind him to stretch his hamstrings and look like a proper athlete . |
| 26 | But get your hair cut and look like a proper Englishman . |
| 27 | On the other hand , next-door-neighbour Ghana has a policy to preserve forest and look after a limited quantity of the forest , and manage it with sustained yield . |
| 28 | You may be able to continue giving care and support to the abandoned partner but it is still necessary to accept both the loss and the change and to look for a positive way forward . |
| 29 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 30 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |