Example sentences of "and look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then he 'd bounce a little with his other leg out straight behind him to stretch his hamstrings and look like a proper athlete . |
| 32 | But get your hair cut and look like a proper Englishman . |
| 33 | On the other hand , next-door-neighbour Ghana has a policy to preserve forest and look after a limited quantity of the forest , and manage it with sustained yield . |
| 34 | You may be able to continue giving care and support to the abandoned partner but it is still necessary to accept both the loss and the change and to look for a positive way forward . |
| 35 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 36 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 37 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 38 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |
| 39 | I recalled those days at school and looked for a sympathetic response . |
| 40 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 41 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 42 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 43 | As there were so few Asians in our part of London it could hardly have been anyone else , but the person had a scarf over most of his face and looked like a nervous bank robber who could n't find a bank . |
| 44 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 45 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 46 | They arrived a good hour before most of the Californian sun-kissed audience and looked like a pale gang of spotty oik kids playing their hearts out . |
| 47 | They arrived a good hour before most of the Californian sun-kissed audience and looked like a pale gang of spotty oik kids playing their hearts out . |
| 48 | He was barefoot and wearing a black brocade dressing-gown and looked like a Chinese Emperor . |
| 49 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |