Example sentences of "and look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Manx shearwater is the largest of the three , and looks like a small black and white fulmar ( to which it is , of course , related ) . |
| 2 | The Fish Louse ( Argulus ) can be up to 10mm across and looks like a tiny flatfish . |
| 3 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |
| 4 | He is not said to have been holy , and looks like a successful career churchman , often occupied with the king 's business , and willing to contravene church law by practising pluralism . |
| 5 | They may also have cricket 's champion talker in fast bowler Brent ‘ Bomber ’ Smith who commutes from Stockton and looks like a 39-year-old Clark Gable . |
| 6 | South America also has a small tree-climbing anteater , which is a close cousin of Myrmecophaga and looks like a miniature and less extreme version of it , and a third , intermediate form . |
| 7 | In light of the fact that she appeared to be on the hunt , and looked like a blonde bombshell , exactly what was the man asking her ? |
| 8 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 9 | She was six feet tall and looked like a gorgeous transvestite , possibly the beneficiary of some dirty-minded sex-change operation , over in California there . |
| 10 | ‘ I have always feared the Dark Ireland , ’ said Dierdriu , and her eyes were huge now , and looking on a terrible possibility . |
| 11 | ‘ If only one were going to court freely and looking to a bright future — 't is different for you ! ’ |
| 12 | Cooper , knocked out by Floyd Patterson in his previous fight and looking for a gentle return to the ring , took on Boston Jacobs , an unknown New Yorker . |
| 13 | Kevin Coley was rumoured to be fed up with the dreadful Napiers and looking for a new senior professional . |
| 14 | Municipal Mutual , Britain 's ninth biggest insurer with 1,500,000 policyholders , is in difficulty and looking for a new partner . |
| 15 | Slightly insane and looking for a good laugh ? |
| 16 | In the afternoon haze , a tall mountain suddenly appeared , surrounded by rock walls and spires and looking like a faint fortress from the 11th century . |
| 17 | I made the pretence of patting my pockets and looking like a total cretin . |
| 18 | Imre Makowecz 's Hungarian pavilion , all timber and looking like a rustic church , is original , economical and ( most important ) says something about Hungary . |
| 19 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 20 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 21 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 22 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 23 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 24 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 25 | Passing Wattisham we identify Stowmarket ( R ) and look for a specific road/railway junction ( S ) , which turns up exactly as we expected it . |
| 26 | So let's treat this as a political problem and look for a political solution . ’ |
| 27 | These verses ( from chapter 2 ) I received personally as an encouragement to ‘ Arise ’ and look for a new way of following Christ and preaching the gospel . |
| 28 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 29 | They are well aware of the amount of variation possible in ‘ scientifically produced ’ data and look with a certain scepticism upon laboratory results , especially when they diverge markedly from their own intuition or their expectations based on past knowledge . |
| 30 | Gamma and 6 Equulei are close together , and look like a wide double , though they are not actually associated with each other . |