Example sentences of "[pron] look a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 2 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 3 | ‘ I know I look a complete wreck , ’ answered Felicity Suvarov with a mischievous gleam in her remarkable eyes , ‘ but I do n't feel quite as bad as I look . ’ |
| 4 | Michael Jackson he said I really regret , he said I look a right mess |
| 5 | For a man who always looks so morose when batting — ‘ I know I look a miserable sod out there , but I ca n't help it , ’ he once said — and whose captaincy had previously seemed rather ordinary , it was a revelation . |
| 6 | I looked a complete asshole ! |
| 7 | Grattan is only 5 per cent ahead which looks a poor defence against wage costs rising by 8 per cent and high street occupancy costs by 20 per cent . |
| 8 | ‘ Dad 'll make himself look a great idiot if he goes up there , wo n't he , Mum ? |
| 9 | ‘ Ye looked a wee bit shaky at the bar . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , he 'll make me look a hundred and three , ’ said Lucy . |
| 11 | ‘ Makes me look a bloody fool . ’ |
| 12 | Makes me look a right cunt dragging me out of the shop let alone . |
| 13 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 14 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 15 | ‘ She looks a happy child . ’ |
| 16 | This was because Lydia 's red frock bore another message , which went : ‘ This red frock is more chic and expensive than anything which you possess , and it makes you look a provincial old trollop in your mock Chanel suit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How can you look a million dollars , be so terrifically successful in business — and yet your personal life seem to be in such a mess ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You look a total mess this morning , ’ Eleanor went on coolly , obviously feeling that all the advantages were piling up on her side . |
| 19 | His anger made her turn to look at him : ‘ You look a right mess ! ’ |
| 20 | It is also understood that these Biros were capable of telepathically transmitting their cries for freedom to companions of their tormentors , with the result that these would remark , for no logical reason , ‘ You look a right prat with that thing hanging round your neck , throw it away . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You look a miserable cunt in the picture , too . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You look a little distraite , ’ he observed drily , his eyes moving from the rumpled strands of blonde hair escaping from her plait to the finger-marks and the damp champagne patch on the front of her dress . |
| 23 | Ah now wonder you look a little bit lost . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , you looked a right tart ! |
| 25 | Yeah , just because you looked a nice girl was it ? on a cat and bob , somebody who gives you lots of promises and it 's load of crap |
| 26 | I bet you looked a lovely boy ! |
| 27 | But she looked a bloody sight in dress . |
| 28 | She was a very little dolly bird you know and she looked a real Miss Trendsetter you know , in the mini dress you know . |
| 29 | long curls and er , you know , a , a then she , she , she looked a real dolly bird |
| 30 | Between yelps and squawks , she blubbered noisily ; so when it was finally over she looked a pathetic sight , standing before him with red , swollen eyes and tear-streaked cheeks . |