Example sentences of "[pron] looked like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 2 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 3 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 4 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 5 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 6 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |
| 7 | The club house , which looked like a turreted Ruritanian castle , had white walls , grey roofs , flawless pitches front and back , but as yet no windows , nor , as Perdita suspected , a Ladies ' loo , or changing room . |
| 8 | Almost by return , he was hit by a missile which looked like a rotting cabbage . |
| 9 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 10 | ‘ He said that you looked like a little ghost , and tried not to mention my name . |
| 11 | You looked like a wet rag coming up there . ’ |
| 12 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 13 | ‘ She looked like a committed townee to me . ’ |
| 14 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 15 | She looked like a good cunt . |
| 16 | In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel . |
| 17 | With her long hair drooping round her face and her large , mournful eyes , she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy . |
| 18 | Standing there in her denims and her cotton T-shirt , she looked like a lost , lonely child . |
| 19 | She looked like a tall little girl . |
| 20 | She was wonderfully , miraculously improved , in fact she looked like a normal animal . |
| 21 | At night , lit from within , she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 23 | She looked like a Spanish gypsy — exotic , vivid , volatile . |
| 24 | She looked like a leathery caricature of the old woman she might have become . |
| 25 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |
| 26 | She looked like a sleek , tawny cat about to pounce on its prey . |
| 27 | In the flying dust she looked like a frost-shocked tree . |
| 28 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 29 | She looked like a discarded puppet . |
| 30 | She looked like a quiet , gentle young woman , I thought . |