Example sentences of "him [vb infin] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 2 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 3 | His big , red face was turned towards her , attentive in the cigarette 's glow ; his moustache , like two orange tusks , made him look like a gentle walrus . |
| 4 | It makes him look like a racist prat . |
| 5 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 6 | Marjorie helps him on with his camelhair overcoat , a garment she persuaded him to buy against his better judgement , for it hangs well below his knees and , he thinks , accentuates his short stature , as well as making him look like a prosperous bookie . |
| 7 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 8 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 9 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 10 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 11 | With hindsight it makes him sound like a manipulative sexual deviant . |
| 12 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 13 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |