Example sentences of "him look [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Was that how he had developed the deep tan that made him look somehow so vital ?
2 All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant .
3 Hitch was a couple of years younger than his boss but his long blond hair and perpetual sun tan ( the product of a solarium ) made him look closer to thirty than thirty-six .
4 A few paces below where the body lay , and a yard or so into the bushes , there was a patch of free stones , loosely overgrown with grass and lichen , and to all appearance undisturbed for a year or more ; until something about the clear outlining of the upper stone made him look closer .
5 Parsons ' eyes looked sunken , with blue-black rings around them making him look badly bruised .
6 Gary 's nervous mare stayed at her side and Gary , perhaps inspired by her example , straightened up and changed his expression from scared to belligerent , which made him look remarkably like his brother Nails .
7 After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us .
8 ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is .
9 He was no Johnny ) glowered with disbelief , his open mouth making him look even more stupid , and was heard to say :
10 Finch was a lanky man whose cello made him look even thinner .
11 His look was interested at first , but something in her made him look again .
12 Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’
13 ‘ Well ? ’ snapped Duvall , a little too loudly ; and enough to make him look nervously back in the direction of the office door .
14 The same applied to her cousin Bean but Jazz , if he had never ridden before , had a natural balance that made him look positively accomplished beside the other two .
15 Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal .
16 ‘ Well , there is and there is n't , ’ said Calatin , frowning , which made him look rather odd .
17 What the admiring spectators did n't see was Zarei sitting in the first aid room and insisting those helping him look away as he took off his socks , ‘ because I do n't want to frighten you ’ , and later on slipping a tape of Irish Folk music in to his Walkman as he went back on to the track and muttering quietly to himself , ‘ that will help me stop thinking of the pain ’ .
18 His bald head above the little blinking eyes and ginger moustache made him look pathetically unmilitary and friendly .
19 He looked away and a dark flush spread through his face , making him look suddenly very vulnerable .
20 Then she saw him look across at her and smile , and all her uncertainties vanished like morning mist before the sun .
21 That his jacket photograph makes him look more like Norman Bates than ever does n't help .
22 This memory made him look more often at Tess than the other dairymaids .
23 Fitzosbert 's smile made him look more hideous than ever .
24 He was dressed in a blue shirt and jeans , which should have made him look more relaxed , and did n't .
25 The formal clothes should have made him look more urbane and civilised , but they did n't .
26 Makes him look more sexy , thought Juliet , and wondered what had come over her today .
27 The skin seemed to grow taut over his cheekbones , making him look more predatory than ever .
28 But the smile did n't make him look more attractive , it made him look more dangerous .
29 But the smile did n't make him look more attractive , it made him look more dangerous .
30 It made him look more like a ruthless pirate than ever .
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