Example sentences of "looked [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth thought he looked rather like a baby monkey , but she assured Rosie that her son was the most handsome child she had ever seen . |
| 2 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 3 | With her veil pushed back and her black hood shading her face , she looked rather like a nun . |
| 4 | At four o'clock we achieved a packet each from what looked remarkably like a Texan millionaire and his wife . |
| 5 | Even the tiny jet-buttoned bolero jacket looked less like a cover-up now than a blatant temptation , allowing the pearly sheen of her bare shoulders to gleam through the lace . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose we 'll see passenger flights after this , ‘ he looked thoughtfully at a bottle of beer . |
| 7 | He looked so like a frog , being literally green with fright , with his eyes nearly popping out of his head , that Breeze wanted to laugh ; but she did n't , because she knew that this curious , gaping crowd of people would think she was hysterical . |
| 8 | As he lunged for her she threw herself out of the way and looked desperately for a way out . |
| 9 | Fran let her eyes linger on the scarred red paintwork and shattered windows of her little Fiesta , then looked away with a sigh . |
| 10 | Rory looked away for a second , towards the beach , where the long Atlantic rollers crashed against the broad expanse of gold . |
| 11 | She looked away for a moment . |
| 12 | Kenneth looked away for a moment , then cleared his throat . |
| 13 | Piper looked away for a moment . |
| 14 | I looked just like a crinoline lady . |
| 15 | ‘ It looked just like a puddle , ’ she said . |
| 16 | It looked just like a sailor 's hammock made out of toilet paper , cotton wool and string . |
| 17 | He looked just like a tramp . ’ |
| 18 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 19 | Few people , I discovered , looked directly at a waiter 's eyes , even when they were talking to him . |
| 20 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 21 | He was sunburnt too , and looked more like a countryman than before . |
| 22 | He looked more like a farmer , as , indeed , he was , farming ten thousand acres in Lincolnshire as a highly profitable hobby . |
| 23 | Small and slightly built — he looked more like a scholar than a military man — Hoppy 's character inspired immediate trust from all who served with him . |
| 24 | Ironically it looked more like a scene from after the nuclear holocaust instead of a plea to prevent one . |
| 25 | The cottage was so small it looked more like a doll 's house than a human dwelling . |
| 26 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 27 | The leaving party held for Doreen looked more like a board meeting , as the chairman and directors were there to say good-bye . |
| 28 | The big downstairs room might have been a converted cowshed , but when she opened the tall shutters and the sunlight poured in , it looked more like a state apartment . |
| 29 | What with her neat black suit , white blouse , rimless spectacles and greying hair , Ella Shields looked more like a school teacher than a vaudeville and music hall celebrity , toast of two continents . |
| 30 | A simple little house , charmingly decorated in pastel shades and seeming very much to match its owner , who looked more like a housewife than she did an astrologer . |