Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] look [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , he 'll make me look a hundred and three , ’ said Lucy . |
| 2 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 3 | ‘ The hardest thing is keeping it looking the same , ’ says Mr Poole , ‘ mainly because of modern health and safety regulations . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why are you wasting your precious money paying me to look an absolute fool on your behalf , Roman ? ’ |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because Reality Orientation starts with the world people know , it 's important to keep it looking the same . |
| 10 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 11 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 12 | D McIntyre Funny , I always thought she looked a little bit like Blues official DESSIE Moore … could they be related ? |
| 13 | I bet you looked a lovely boy ! |
| 14 | thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She thought he looked a pathetic figure of a man . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
| 19 | The cleaner and better groomed you look the greater will be the impression of efficiency and being in command of the situation which you give to the interviewer . |
| 20 | Ah now wonder you look a little bit lost . |
| 21 | Like WordStar , WordPerfect has drop-down menus , making it look a whole lot friendlier for the uninitiated |
| 22 | Michael Jackson he said I really regret , he said I look a right mess |
| 23 | Why does it look the same at all points of space and in all directions ? |
| 24 | ‘ Makes me look a bloody fool . ’ |
| 25 | Makes me look a right cunt dragging me out of the shop let alone . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The aim is to make you look the best and capture it on film . ’ |
| 28 | That means that you will be able to run an application on a number of different processors and have it look the same and work the same on each machine . |