Example sentences of "[vb past] look like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her day , Mrs Thatcher tried to look like a normal human being and went shopping . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | A frisson wriggled down her spine but the room held no other occupant and though she turned round as soon as she decently could , Berndt Tjerssen contrived to look like a sweet , chubby old man . |
| 4 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 5 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 6 | Finally , Mrs Killea turned what had looked like a hopeless contest into a 51-49 victory . |
| 7 | Remarkably , they turn what had looked like a dead duck of an evening — a half-full club of uninterested Finns busy soaking up the DJ 's Toto records — into an event . |
| 8 | What had looked like a smooth expanse of grey-green wood was , close to , a maze of rough bark , roots and clumps of moss . |