Example sentences of "look like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition . |
| 2 | There are a couple of blemishes on the maple which look like black drips from where the pickup cavities have been painted , which is a little careless , but luckily these are not too noticeable sitting as they do underneath the player 's right arm during use . |
| 3 | Mind you , that 's where I forget I , I know my fingers look like black puddings ! |
| 4 | With their coiled energy , jumps , louche shoulder work , insinuating hips and limber backs , they look like real dancers . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people , ’ said Shirley , ‘ have those fake gas fires now , you know , they look like real coal fires , with lumps of stuff like real coal , and real ashes . |
| 6 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 7 | Cos they look like real people |
| 8 | It was a joke because rheas , which look like small ostriches ( only with an extra toe on each foot ) can not fly anyway . |
| 9 | Highly poisonous laburnum seeds look like tiny chocolate drops ; fairly nasty lupin seeds come in little green pods , just like peas . |
| 10 | There are several forms of ladybird , with wide variation in colour and number of spots , but all remarkably similar in the voracious manner in which the dark , blackish larvae , which look like tiny crocodiles , gobble up the defenceless prey . |
| 11 | The leader of the trio , an ample-bellied type with a tweed cap and one of those quilted waistcoats which look like half-inflated life jackets , sniffed the air as he studied the blackboard which serves the Rambler as a menu . |
| 12 | They look like dull pieces of glass , with a milky , opaque surface . |
| 13 | cos we ca n't seem to be , cos otherwise we look like flipping idiots |
| 14 | At 4–1 for the County Championship , Essex look like solid bankers and the 6- 1 with Chandler to win the NatWest also looks an attractive bet . |
| 15 | Cheaper tiles resemble cord or felt carpets , while more expensive ones may have a cut or shag pile , or even look like expensive velvet-finish carpet , with no joints visible . |
| 16 | Fossils called palaeoscolecidans , known to bear phosphatic sclerites , may be of interest here : specimens from the Sirius Passet fauna display what look like spiny snouts similar to those that distinguish priapulids , suggestive of a close relationship . |
| 17 | You look like good children . ’ |
| 18 | You both look like good workers . ’ |
| 19 | The most impressive of the rhinos is the great Indian rhinoceros , with its tough skin thrown into heavy folds that look like curved , welded sections of sheet-metal . |
| 20 | But as our studies continue , more and more concealed breaks become apparent , such as the remarkable situation in the jurassic limestones of western Sicily , where several stages are packed away into thin solution pipes in what otherwise look like unbroken limestone sequences ( figure 3.1 ) . |
| 21 | But screw-worms look like normal maggots and usually do n't come singly . |
| 22 | The second is that , electorally , the Democrats , Greens and SDP look like distant follies on a faraway hill . |
| 23 | They look like jittery , hysterical little birds crowded together on a power line . |
| 24 | Her buttocks look like two golden apples in the sun , wrinkled , like ripe apples , where they meet the top of her legs . |
| 25 | Well there 's only look like two that are anything discussing that film about the lambs whatever it 's called with Jodie Foster , the rest did n't look very interesting but you may feel differently . |
| 26 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 27 | ‘ S'posin' I look like one o' the ovver blokes , ’ he went on . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you look like one of the Village People , ’ comments Crystal . |
| 29 | They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet . |
| 30 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |