Example sentences of "[that] looked [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
2 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
3 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
4 | ‘ Bizarro ’ ( Gedge liked the word ) came in a dark green sleeve with a design that looked like a red-coloured star shooting across a night sky . |
5 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
6 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
7 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
8 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |