Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strings were apparently omitted since the small scale ( the whole box is less than 16″x9″ ) made them look a bit stupid . |
| 2 | They were guilty as hell over the East German business and made me look a fool . |
| 3 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 4 | She made you look a bit of a fool in front of anyone else who was watching . |
| 5 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 6 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 7 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 8 | The story was n't exactly all over the front page , but it started there with photographs of Mercer and Bambi and continued inside , with a glamorous back-lit formal shot of Xanthe , which made her look a lot older than her published age , fifteen . |
| 9 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 10 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 11 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 12 | I knew I looked a mess and I could not face going into class in that state . |
| 13 | We thought you looked a bit out of sorts . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 15 | D McIntyre Funny , I always thought she looked a little bit like Blues official DESSIE Moore … could they be related ? |
| 16 | No I just thought they looked a bit short that was all if you were |
| 17 | The light shows through the membrane-type front panel — which a couple of people here did n't like because they felt it looked a bit cheap . |
| 18 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 19 | Defries thought it looked a bit obscene ; but then , perhaps that was appropriate . |
| 20 | Leave my handbag alone but you see when it was in the window Jane I thought it looked a bit too light , but I think what makes it look like that is they 've got the light shining |
| 21 | thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and |
| 22 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 23 | Parker thought he looked a boxer . |
| 24 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 25 | I know Claudia 's been a good stepmother-she 's the kindest woman in the world — but I thought he looked a sad sort of a boy . |
| 26 | Preston could remember his nan asking on more than one occasion , and his mum shrugging and saying , ‘ She thought he looked a bit like Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 27 | She thought he looked a pathetic figure of a man . |
| 28 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
| 29 | When sitting astride a conveyance that prefers hay to unleaded , you should remember that John Wayne made it look a lot easier than it is . |
| 30 | That fat kid from the Double Deckers who played the tuba and made it look the size of a bag of crisps … what is he up to now ? |