Example sentences of "look [prep] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 2 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |
| 3 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
| 4 | That 's why I sympathise with Audrey and I feel sure she 's not looking for a new man . |
| 5 | Change his hair , colour it , give him a beard — it would all help to age him , and Madam Lundy 's men will be looking for a young man . " |
| 6 | She 's looking for a young man and possibly a young woman . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ So you 're looking for a local man , a Loner , someone who has a night job , the use of a car or van and a knowledge of Hymns Ancient and Modern . |
| 8 | Police are looking for a scruffy man aged 17 to 21 . |
| 9 | ‘ We are looking for an evil man . ’ |
| 10 | From what I 've seen and heard , Graham seems to be looking to a big man with the ball aimed for the sky . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ One is looking at a young man with monstrously abnormal behaviour . |
| 12 | So when we look at Paul as he writes about himself , we are looking at a Christian man whose life and words have parallels for each one of us . |
| 13 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 14 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 15 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 16 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 18 | Indeed Law determined not to try to look like a great man and therein lay the secret this success . |
| 19 | To look like a White man for a while . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 22 | He was n't happy , but could only agree when I said I was sure that he would n't want to look at a naked man . |
| 23 | Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair — Quex — looked like a dying man to Edward Carrington . |
| 24 | Shelley looked like a haunted man . |
| 25 | He looked like a local man , at home and unobtrusive in this comfortable country room as he would have been in the border landscape outside . |
| 26 | It looked like a little man . |
| 27 | He looked like an old man suddenly and she realised how he had aged since she had seen him last . |
| 28 | When Aby realized what had happened , his face looked like an old man 's . |