Example sentences of "looked the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lachlan looked the women over . |
| 2 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 3 | Immaculately groomed in seaside holiday costume , he looked the preface ‘ dapper young gentleman ’ . |
| 4 | Indurain looked the master of his former captain , Pedro Delgado , who won the Tour in 1988 , faltered since that victory but may be on the way back to the top . |
| 5 | He looked one way , then he looked the other . |
| 6 | Everywhere I looked the Government was involved . |
| 7 | A supercar designed and built in Turin , but by the Japanese , the Art & Tech Sogna looked the part |
| 8 | Only Morrissey looked the part , ensconced as he was in a wild celebration of his now successful madness . |
| 9 | SMOOTH OPERATOR Sean Connery certainly looked the part of secret agent 007 — but he was no real-life hero |
| 10 | Mouldy old Lieutenant Pigeon : from when pop stars really looked the part |
| 11 | James Spicer had been a major in an infantry regiment and looked the part in a well-cut tweed suit , burnished brown brogues and his regimental tie . |
| 12 | He could discuss effortlessly and at length the breeding and points of his patients ; he rode , he hunted , he even looked the part with his long aristocratic face , clipped moustache and lean frame . |
| 13 | Like so many Victorians he looked the part , his face possessing an authority worthy of a minor prophet . |
| 14 | She looked the part . |
| 15 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 16 | Harry Foy as Needle Nugent looked the part and always stayed in character . |
| 17 | From his tweed jacket to his patterned brogues he looked the part perfectly : not the usual designer mix from expensive shops in Milan or Rome , but the real thing , as plain and heavy as Zen imagined the English climate , character and cuisine to be . |
| 18 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 19 | McGee looked the part from the word go , playing an important role in the right-back position which caused Scarborough problems all season . |
| 20 | With his highly polished boots and gaiters , corduroy trousers and tweed jacket , he looked the epitome of authority . |
| 21 | She looked the epitome of elegance and good taste , with the confidence of a woman who knows she is beautiful . |
| 22 | she looked the word up . |
| 23 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 24 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 25 | He looked the way all the Forth army looked now , with brown keel-marks under his eyes and his riddled skin beaten like metal . |
| 26 | But it looked the kind of place that would be silent if diggers full of desperate nomes were n't thundering across it . |
| 27 | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother , although she looked the elder by some years . |
| 28 | Dad looked the man straight in the eye . |
| 29 | He always looked the man most likely to score . |
| 30 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |