Example sentences of "[not/n't] look [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |
| 2 | With that Honourable he could approach a ready Miss D'Arcy who would not look at a tradesman , a craftsman , let alone a common man whatever his industry or honesty . |
| 3 | She did not look for a hotel . |
| 4 | We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ . |
| 5 | It made it clear that , whatever their achievements in the past , the direct-grant schools could not look towards a stable future within the national system of education . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 9 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This did not look like a cost effective national strategy for community care . |
| 12 | The church was designed by Mr Henry Veitch and , according to the stipulations of Portuguese law at that time regarding Protestant places of worship , did not look like a church and had no bells . |
| 13 | Hawk did not look like a soce worker or a shrink , but he was getting to her in a way the juvie officials never used to . |
| 14 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 15 | The suite of small rooms which constitutes NISW 's embryonic International Centre does not look like a command station for the international social work jet set . |
| 16 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 17 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 18 | ‘ He does not look like a man , ’ he maintained stubbornly . |
| 19 | ‘ I still do not look like a Yek , ’ he said , grinning . |
| 20 | She did not look like a child dressing up , more like the daughter of a medieval family , dressed always as a smaller version of the adults , a woman at eleven or twelve . |
| 21 | ‘ This one does not look like a dog , ’ Mandru said . |
| 22 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 23 | Mr Heathcliff certainly does not look like a farmer . |
| 24 | Mortimer did not look like a country doctor . |
| 25 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 26 | He did not look like a wolf , but he did look like a young man with an eye for a girl , and techniques that would bear watching . |
| 27 | His letter had not contained any regrets for her forthcoming ordeal and he did not look like a man who would have much patience with women in any case . |
| 28 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 29 | OK — im small and dark and somewhat ‘ chubby ’ ( at the moment — too manuy pints lately … ) . does not look like a viking at all — more some kind of far east/portugese bloke — ill be wearing red puma states and probably black levis — if i see leeds-stuff inside i guess i will be unfolding my leeds ‘ smiley ’ shirt … jacket — du n no — how is the weather over there ? |
| 30 | Tonight you most definitely do not look like a Ronni . ’ |