Example sentences of "she looked like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was dressed in a pyramid of fat ringlets and she looked like a Restoration wench , maid to Millamant , scene stealer , fit to be kissed in corners . |
| 2 | She looked like a beautiful young girl , but she had the hardness of an old woman . |
| 3 | She looked like a gypsy princess plucked from the pages of a storybook . |
| 4 | She looked like a discarded puppet . |
| 5 | In the flying dust she looked like a frost-shocked tree . |
| 6 | With her hair loose on her shoulders and a reflected miniature candle flame dancing in each pupil , she looked like a beautiful wild beast out of a poem Sam had heard once , a ‘ Tyger , Tyger , burning bright ’ . |
| 7 | She looked like a rag doll . |
| 8 | She looked like a good cunt . |
| 9 | At night , lit from within , she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers . |
| 10 | She looked like a tank in her bathing costume , Hoomey thought , squat and powerful and belligerent . |
| 11 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 12 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 13 | She looked like a dream to Dan . |
| 14 | Her clothes were smooth , her make-up was smooth , she looked like a picture out of a magazine for mature women . |
| 15 | Because she looked like a sparrow , for which the French slang is ‘ Piaf ’ , she soon adopted the name and from then on was known by nothing else . |
| 16 | She looked like a sort of fierce lamp . |
| 17 | She looked like a different person . |
| 18 | She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing . |
| 19 | ‘ She looked like a little Biafran with these spindly arms and legs and this big , distended stomach . |
| 20 | She looked like a maid , I tell ye . ’ |
| 21 | She looked like a pixie sometimes , her eyes darting here and there , forever watchful . |
| 22 | But she looked like a Protestant faced with the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 23 | She looked like a little black chattering chimney pot , for as the smoke rose up through her veils she kept up a constant conversation . |
| 24 | She looked like a lady who was used to getting her own way , Lucinda considered . |
| 25 | She looked like a child but she had exceptional bone structure . |
| 26 | PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . |
| 27 | Sophie was a pint-sized ash blonde with tiny hands and feet : carrying her plump , placid babies , she looked like a wren with two cuckoos . |
| 28 | She looked like a white rock ; a pillar from Stonehenge , fallen . |
| 29 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |
| 30 | She looked like a piece of liver . ’ |