Example sentences of "he look like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 2 | He wore the flying helmet he had affected on the morning of his arrival and those goggles which , when removed , had left him looking like a barn owl , white-ringed eyes blinking in a smut-flecked face . |
| 3 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 4 | The financial community was also shocked by a recent photograph showing him looking like a down and out with flowing locks and a long white beard and wearing dirty jeans and trainers . |
| 5 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 6 | Edward Crumwallis was tall , sunken-cheeked , and he bent his neck and head forward towards his companions , making him look like a bird of prey with indigestion . |
| 7 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 8 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 9 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 10 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 11 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 12 | That made him look like an idiot . |
| 13 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |
| 14 | The balustrade beside him looked like the shelves of a hosiery shop : dozens of pairs of silk stockings hung from it or lay in piles on the flagstones beside the brass six-pounder . |
| 15 | ‘ He looks like a pirate — acts like one , too . ’ |
| 16 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 17 | Babur thinks he looks like a film star , the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper . |
| 18 | I say he looks like a cat . |
| 19 | He looks like a lecturer . |
| 20 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 22 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 23 | He 's quite a gipsy you know , he looks like a gipsy , did you meet him ? |
| 24 | ‘ I can see why American women voted for Clinton — he looks like a winner . |
| 25 | ‘ He looks like a character who has been chucked out of a Stephen Conroy painting for making too much noise ’ was one of the more polite comments by the critics . |
| 26 | He looks like a waif . |
| 27 | He looks like a toddler ready for ‘ walkies ’ . |
| 28 | People usually remember Mel Smith because he looks like a potato . |
| 29 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 30 | But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch . |