Example sentences of "look like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both works end on a possible return , on what might look like a bleak diminuendo but is really an anxiety state . |
| 2 | The picture ( left ) may look like a model of the hotel but is , in fact , the real thing . |
| 3 | But she does n't look like a detective … |
| 4 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 5 | Meninga , it must be said , did not look like a man under undue pressure as he genially fended press questions yesterday , even laughing off a suggestion from one of his braver interlocuters that his weight had recently ballooned . |
| 6 | It was pretty obvious he was after making me look like a rent boy . |
| 7 | It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's . |
| 8 | It do n't really look like a leg . |
| 9 | It do n't look like a |
| 10 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 11 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 12 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 13 | It was nice to home in on the one naive sentence in a book and quote it , making the author look like a prat . |
| 14 | Catch that , ’ Elinor called as she ran after a greasy , paper napkin , her gold satin pleats swirling around making her look like a giant sunflower . |
| 15 | Say — ‘ You do n't look like a farmers wife ( rosy cheeks and wellies again ) . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't look like a natro . |
| 17 | ‘ You may look like a brainless little urchin , but you are certainly the daughter of my flesh . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm making her look like a bad mother . |
| 19 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |
| 20 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 21 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 22 | If the building did not look like a church , Cubitt could have replied that Englishmen needed to ask themselves what a church should look like . |
| 23 | He was older than Miss Harker and he did n't look like a mill worker , nor yet a wealthy man . |
| 24 | The Conservatives want to demonstrate that the Prime Minister is a man of the people ; Labour , in contrast , that their man of the people can look like a Prime Minister . |
| 25 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 26 | This did not look like a cost effective national strategy for community care . |
| 27 | Drama and make-believe play , unlike other second-order experiences , can look like a real event because of the concreteness of the medium . |
| 28 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 29 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 30 | Tall and slim with a strong , handsome face , he did n't look like a ghoul . |