Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dress — I looked like the other people employed in the job I applied for . |
| 2 | All that was her due because she looked like the young Elizabeth Taylor , had dark brown curly hair nearly to her waist , large , dark blue eyes , creamy velvet skin and a wonderful figure . |
| 3 | Sarah guessed she must be James 's wife , and thought she looked like the pink jelly which wobbled on a dish near the salmon . |
| 4 | Two men were seen running from the area , and one witness said they looked like the two accused . |
| 5 | It looked like the cleanest , steepest bit of rock in the corrie surrounding our base at Teryho chata ( hut ) . |
| 6 | It looked like the escaping oriental had collected the two captives and taken them with him , as he led his followers to safety . |
| 7 | For a long time it looked like the 500 GP career he started just last year would be very short . |
| 8 | It looked like the Red Rock that I 've had . |
| 9 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 10 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 11 | He looked like the archetypal respectable Victorian , with mutton chop whiskers , a top hat , a good wife , four sons , four daughters , and strong evangelical convictions . |
| 12 | He looked like the worst kind of tramp . |
| 13 | He looked like the petrol-soaked wreck of a swan come to grief in a polluted river . |