Example sentences of "[pron] look the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I looked the other day . |
| 2 | In her designer tracksuit of vivid mauve and gold , her Reebok bumpers and man 's leather flying jacket , she looked the complete opposite of her parents ' idea of dressed up . |
| 3 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 4 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 5 | " Well , they look the bloody same to me . |
| 6 | They looked the real thing to me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He looks the other way , then ? ’ |
| 8 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
| 9 | ‘ It looked the other way round to me , ’ said Tommy . |
| 10 | He looked the other way , staring at TV aerials as if he was doing a project on them . |
| 11 | He looked the powerful prince , his face dark and swarthy like an Italian 's , thick , sensuous lips , a beaked nose and lustrous dark eyes . |
| 12 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 13 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |
| 14 | A long , lean man with an ascetic face , he looked the celibate monk he had always been , but in private conversation he was unpompous , outgoing , witty . |
| 15 | I coughed , and he looked up ; a grey little man with spectacles , standing there in the mud surrounded by the squabbling pigs , he looked the very antithesis of magnificent immensity . |
| 16 | While he looked the back door opened , and a woman came out , calling over her shoulder to someone in the house , as she came . |