Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] look like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even had to hand letter it to get it to get it to look like itself . |
| 2 | Dermot , you see , is an Elvis fan , and given the right stimulants , has been known to think he looks like Presley ( although , as one bemused clubber from Leeds commented , ‘ He looks more like a young Max Bygraves ’ ) . |
| 3 | PLUG ARE a cheerful four-piece with a singer who likes to think he looks like Morrissey but actually bears a closer resemblance to a slightly wobbly Eddie Tenpole Tudor , and reveals an easy to spot Cud fixation . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I do n't wish to comment on the use of town hall rooms for this meeting , except to say it looks like another cheap political stunt by the Tories . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's right , I 'm not begging food this time but clothing , have you anything to make me look like a man from these parts ? ’ |
| 6 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 7 | What had she said to make him look like that ? |
| 8 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 9 | we tried to make her look like a person . |
| 10 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |
| 11 | So how are you going to make it look like a third ? |
| 12 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 13 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
| 14 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 15 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 16 | In the Sun 's report , the accused was alleged to have told the police that he stripped the victim naked and cut off one of her breasts to make it look like ‘ the work of a madman ’ . |
| 17 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
| 18 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |
| 19 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 20 | Twist each sheet slightly to make it look like a petal . |
| 21 | Cover the log with the rest of the mixture , using a fork to make it look like bark . |
| 22 | To make it look like suicide , the killer would have to get the unconscious — or possibly already dead — man across two metres of rough , stony ground . |
| 23 | Sergeant Bourne , his administrative assistant , was there with three detective constables , doing their best to make it look like home . |
| 24 | ‘ The corpse was then moved to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . ’ |
| 25 | They found Lady Eleanor dead in her chamber and , concerned about the possible consequences , took her body to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . |
| 26 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 27 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
| 28 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 29 | The bottle had been used to make it look like a sexual attack . |
| 30 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |