Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 2 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 3 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 4 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 5 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 6 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 7 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 8 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 9 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 10 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 11 | ‘ He said that you looked like a little ghost , and tried not to mention my name . |
| 12 | You looked like a wet rag coming up there . ’ |
| 13 | She looked at a big BMW bike parked by the kerb , then up at a darkened row of tall houses . |
| 14 | She looked through a steely sheet of rain to where Stephen was pointing . |
| 15 | Then she told me to turn my back while she looked in a secret place . |
| 16 | Her eyes were clear of tears ; she looked from a great height down into the park and saw its order and its beauty so determinedly brought forth . |
| 17 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 18 | ‘ She looked like a committed townee to me . ’ |
| 19 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 20 | She looked like a good cunt . |
| 21 | In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel . |
| 22 | With her long hair drooping round her face and her large , mournful eyes , she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy . |
| 23 | Standing there in her denims and her cotton T-shirt , she looked like a lost , lonely child . |
| 24 | She looked like a tall little girl . |
| 25 | She was wonderfully , miraculously improved , in fact she looked like a normal animal . |
| 26 | At night , lit from within , she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 28 | She looked like a Spanish gypsy — exotic , vivid , volatile . |
| 29 | She looked like a leathery caricature of the old woman she might have become . |
| 30 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |