Example sentences of "[conj] not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't mean that like it sounds — she did n't do it to get on , or not like that . ’ |
| 2 | Owen thought he knew what kind of assistance that was but Mahmoud said it was not like that , or not like that entirely . |
| 3 | But when he says that the real and nominal essences of a mode , such as a triangle , coincide , he really does mean what we should expect him to mean : that our idea of a triangle is like the horologist 's idea of the Strasburg clock , an idea of its real essence , and not like that of the gazing countryman , an idea of some of its properties . |
| 4 | The two Governors after Paullinus were diplomats and administrators and not like the military men who had caused so much havoc . |
| 5 | And not like that . |
| 6 | ‘ You said that like a spoiled little girl , señorita , and not like an icy journalist at all . ’ |
| 7 | But she 's keen to point out that at her school you 'll learn to ride like a real cowboy and NOT like John Wayne . |
| 8 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 9 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 10 | He made trouble all right but not like that . |
| 11 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 12 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 13 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 14 | Like me , but not like young Chris here . ’ |
| 15 | " Yes , but not like that ! |
| 16 | It smells like oil , but not like three in one oil . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're real , but not like us , ’ Jake whispered , then turned his head away like a shamefaced child . |
| 18 | But not like the ones at Mars-U , or in Spiderglass . |
| 19 | But not like this … . |
| 20 | It was like but not like Scotland . |
| 21 | My brothers and sisters knew my dad could harbour a grudge , but not like this . |
| 22 | This Cartesian illusion is directly linked with the universal belief that " we " ( people like us ) can be distinguished from " they " ( people who are like us in external form but not like us in their inner essence ) . |
| 23 | ‘ But not like me , ’ Ana wept . |
| 24 | There was silence , but not like before . |
| 25 | But not like prowling round in the dark like a kid . ’ |
| 26 | They take their women as they come — good , bad or indifferent — but not like this . |
| 27 | If there had 've been , we 'd be married now , because I love her , but not like that — not the way you love her . ’ |
| 28 | It sounded like , ‘ Yes but not like this . ’ ’ |
| 29 | Cos they live down round near Tina 's but not like Tina 's house , before that off Allard Avenue round the back of Allard Avenue . |
| 30 | Tomatoes need to go in a bag or else they 'll roll about all the over the place see if you can spot , the small-ish ones , but not like that , see cos that 's got a mark on it , we do n't want that one . |