Example sentences of "that looked like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 2 | The most common crops were maize ( corn on the cob ) , the local staple , and large , bushy plants that looked like spinach . |
| 3 | In the centre of the village was a fairly large building that looked like a church . |
| 4 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 5 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 6 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 7 | Robyn peered through a Perspex window and watched things moving round and going in and out in sudden spasms , lubricated by spurts of a liquid that looked like milky coffee . |
| 8 | The floor was covered with a black substance that looked like soot , but grated under the soles of her boots like sand . |
| 9 | After that she saw men making sand moulds , first by hand , and then with machines that looked like giant waffle-irons . |
| 10 | And sometimes , towards dawn , the music would be at full blast and there would be hardly any movement at all , nothing left except maybe just one couple kissing — and yet that looked like dancing too . |
| 11 | The photograph that Boy looked at most often and which he sometimes even left out of the box and kept on the floor beside his bed as he slept was one that looked like a photograph of Boy himself . |
| 12 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
| 13 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 14 | A few thin strands of black to grey hair and a nose that looked like badly applied putty . |
| 15 | Was there , for example , a poison that created symptoms that looked like a fairly recognizable disease ? |
| 16 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 17 | ‘ Bizarro ’ ( Gedge liked the word ) came in a dark green sleeve with a design that looked like a red-coloured star shooting across a night sky . |
| 18 | So Bully seized what he could see that looked like offering a bit of fun . |
| 19 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 20 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 21 | Six years of my childhood was spent in Catterick Camp , now Catterick Garrison ; khaki , puttees , gun carriages , and those early tanks — relics of the Somme and Cambrai — that looked like moving lozenges were my friends . |
| 22 | The little stream wound among floating eyots of water flowers that looked like day stars reflecting a mystical heaven . |
| 23 | The ocean tilted up to meet him , its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations , fallen stars . |
| 24 | We were hastily dismissed and only then did the staff realise the problems caused by 984 pupils searching for shoes , bags and coats in school corridors that looked like the after-effects of an explosion in an Oxfam shop . |
| 25 | He was n't remotely interested in me and brought Philippa some goat 's cheese that looked like Tutankhamun 's brain . |
| 26 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 27 | From where he was standing Conrad could see limp , darkened lettuce and mushrooms that looked like sleeping slugs and unfresh tomatoes in a large wooden bowl in the middle of the table . |
| 28 | There was a pool of liquid on the floor near Lee that looked like urine . |
| 29 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 30 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |