Example sentences of "looked [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodcock noticed that all the young men looked rather the same , ‘ like corrupt cherubs ’ . |
| 2 | The Guynemers could trace courageous ancestors back to Charlemagne , but few heroes looked less the part than Georges , with his almost effeminate beauty and frail , spindly body that was three times rejected as unfit for military service . |
| 3 | He looked much the same as he did later , with a T-shirt and his 5000 volt haircut . |
| 4 | However , by 1984 a stream of continental ecologists were visiting FoE 's headquarters and appearing at conferences to remark that , so far as they were concerned , the trees looked much the same in Britain as they did in West Germany . |
| 5 | She looked much the same herself . |
| 6 | The nurses looked much the same , although , of course hair styles had changed dramatically . |
| 7 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 8 | The street looked much the same — a cul-de-sac , with a brick wall at the far end , closing the road ; and above the wall , towering above the slate-roofed houses , a ship rode at anchor in the Jubilee Dock , its masts and funnels silhouetted against the sky . |
| 9 | It did n't seem that any more work had been done on it , but it still looked much the same . |
| 10 | At thirty-two , Malcolm McLaren was seven years older than Branson , yet he looked only the same age , possibly even younger : a short and wiry figure dressed in pointed boots , black jeans and a tight-fitting suit jacket of Italianate design . |
| 11 | The greens and golds were all faded and darkened to a dull blackish colour that looked all the drabber in the presence of so many fresh flowers . |
| 12 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 13 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 14 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 15 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 16 | It looked just the same . |
| 17 | Miss Havisham looked just the same as before . |
| 18 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , the hut looked just the same ; things wear better than people , do n't they ? ’ |
| 20 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 21 | He looked just the sort of hulk who would attract simpering village lasses . |
| 22 | The beautiful house looked just the same , white and gleaming in the sunlight , and Jenna looked away quickly , knowing that she wanted to stay here with Alain and not go back to her empty life , her sterile plans for the future . |
| 23 | The farm looked just the same . |
| 24 | They looked just the way they did when they turned to the altar on Sunday mornings . |
| 25 | In no time it looked just the part . |
| 26 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 27 | Although most parasites looked exactly the same , Jinkwa recognized it as the large female who had snapped the bones of several of his division . |
| 28 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 29 | Unfortunately he looked more the warrior-who-would-kidnap-a-bride type than a docile servant . |
| 30 | They looked both the same to me . |