Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 2 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 3 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 4 | ‘ Miss Tuckey told us to look for a narrow objective within a broader attack . |
| 5 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 6 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 7 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 8 | She often urged him to look for a suitable girl , but he always replied that there was plenty of time and to date no one had taken his fancy . |
| 9 | It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's . |
| 10 | Her loose yellow hair and the white hospital nightgown made her look like a sick child . |
| 11 | Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown . |
| 12 | The one her husband had said made her look like a Queen . |
| 13 | To my eyes this made her look like a strip-dancer at a funeral . |
| 14 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 15 | ‘ I already told her it made her look like a Botticelli nymph . ’ |
| 16 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 17 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 18 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 19 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 20 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 21 | His big , red face was turned towards her , attentive in the cigarette 's glow ; his moustache , like two orange tusks , made him look like a gentle walrus . |
| 22 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 23 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 24 | I thought you meant I looked like a side of beef . |
| 25 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 26 | In her new dress , a fitted emerald green sparkly affair with huge padded shoulders , George thought she looked like a cross between a Christmas tree and an American footballer . |
| 27 | I noticed it , I thought it looked like a rash |
| 28 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 29 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 30 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |