Example sentences of "he looked [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 2 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 3 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 4 | He looked like a broiled frog , hunched over his desk , grinning and satisfied . |
| 5 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 6 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 7 | At first glance , Cowley thought , he looked like a retired accountant . |
| 8 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 9 | Jodami had never been cantered but he looked like a strong old fashioned chaser , ’ said the trainer . |
| 10 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 11 | He looked like a fresh-faced schoolboy and introduced himself to Charlie as one might do to a casual acquaintance at a cocktail party . |
| 12 | He looked like a male model . |
| 13 | With his eyes flashing , he looked like a black furry guided missile . |
| 14 | He looked like a real nice guy . |
| 15 | He looked like a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter 's wedding , and he was clearly very pleased with himself this evening . |
| 16 | In the firelight , he looked like a dark angel . |
| 17 | After a few seconds he looked like a Dark Age warlord in mid campaign , in mid mop-up , on mired mountaintop , taking a glazed breather before moving on to the women and children . |
| 18 | Then he looked like a frightened animal . |
| 19 | That 's why he was in a white jacket ( I remember that you said he looked like a phoney dentist in a toothpaste ad ) . |
| 20 | He looked like a lopsided clown . |
| 21 | He looked like a mammoth black Tailor of Gloucester , delicately plying his needle . |
| 22 | He looked like a senior civil servant . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | he looked like a Greek God . |
| 25 | Dressed in his father 's shirt , his mop of black hair savagely pruned and his skin scrubbed and glowing , he looked like a thin bewildered stranger trapped within the glass . |
| 26 | He looked like a thin , young boy , much younger than he really was , his brown hair like a monk 's without the tonsure . |
| 27 | God forgive me , he looked like a mud-coloured frog crouching there in the half-light . |
| 28 | With his fine features and pale face he looked like a carved medieval figure on a tomb , and Constance was overwhelmed by his beauty . |
| 29 | He looked like a worried small boy . |
| 30 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |