Example sentences of "looked like one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Everyone was into existentialism , along with the beginnings of meditation , Zen and some other odd philosophies practised and preached by one of Dean 's advisers , a male witch named Samson DeVreer , who was often in company of another of Dean 's odd acquaintances , the television hostess named Vampira , because she looked like one , of whom Dean once said — when asked by Hedda Hopper if he was seeing her — ‘ I do n't date cartoons . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He looked like one of those gipsies your daddy sent away this morning , Angela . ’ |
| 4 | For example , in a tree nine thousand miles away from Masklin , high on a cloudy mountainside , was a plant that looked like one large flower . |
| 5 | I looked like one of those peasant girls in the old folk-tales , the ones who never get to the ball . |
| 6 | The sky looked like one massive mottled rain cloud . |
| 7 | Louis , catching Léonie lifting up the mahogany flap in the seat of what looked like one of the pews in church , forbade her future entry . |
| 8 | If the abbey was a marvel of man 's work , the Tor was God 's answer for in that flat land it looked like one of the high places mentioned in the bible where the ancient patriarchs went to talk to Yahweh . |
| 9 | He looked like one of the carefree devils he had carved , with his fat , cheery face , snub nose and large blue eyes which seemed to dance with wicked merriment . |
| 10 | He looked like one of those Irish rebels whose photographs one saw in the papers : swarthy , intense , indifferent to any opinion but their own . |
| 11 | By contrast , Shaw , communing with the computer and making a new friend , looked like one of those whiz-kids who , from their glass and concrete towers , manipulate the world 's money markets . |
| 12 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 13 | She was wearing a dress that fitted like a snake 's skin , and looked like one , too . |
| 14 | The other , a warlike woman , looked like one of Saddam Hussein 's concubines and featured more phallic symbols than a hedgehog . |