Example sentences of "you look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 2 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 3 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 4 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 5 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 6 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 7 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 8 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 9 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 10 | You look like a mental deficient standing there gawking . ’ |
| 11 | You look like a young priest in your black and white , no , like a novice , an apprentice monk , you view the world with shocked amazement , you need a real woman in your life . ’ |
| 12 | You look like a constipated panda . ’ |
| 13 | You look like a drowned rat nothing personal . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You look like a drowned rat , ’ he commented , raising one eyebrow . |
| 15 | ‘ You look like a new religious cult from San Francisco , ’ Nutty decided . |
| 16 | When I got home my dad took one look at it and said , you look like a bleeding nancy boy . |
| 17 | you look like a red chicken |
| 18 | You look like a sexy woman and he treated you like one . |
| 19 | You look like a little Dutch girl . |
| 20 | ‘ You look like a little blue bush-baby … ’ |
| 21 | You look like a damned wop . |
| 22 | Now you look like a Botticelli nymph . ’ |
| 23 | And you look like a blushing bride . |
| 24 | ‘ You look like a schizophrenic transvestite . ’ |