Example sentences of "to look just like " in BNC.
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1 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
2 | For art 's sake , Yeats held on to the myth of his high , unrequited love ( he even proposed marriage to Maud 's daughter when the child grew old enough to look just like her mother did , so long ago ) . |
3 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
4 | Paul 's little brother Ed used to look just like that on long car journeys before he … |
5 | Identifying them is a problem for a start — many species tend to look just like several others ! |