Example sentences of "but not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He made trouble all right but not like that . |
| 3 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's still interesting , but not like those first few times outside the States when I 'd go sightseeing — y'know , checking everything out . |
| 6 | Like me , but not like young Chris here . ’ |
| 7 | " Yes , but not like that ! |
| 8 | It smells like oil , but not like three in one oil . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're real , but not like us , ’ Jake whispered , then turned his head away like a shamefaced child . |
| 10 | But not like the ones at Mars-U , or in Spiderglass . |
| 11 | But not like this … . |
| 12 | It was like but not like Scotland . |
| 13 | My brothers and sisters knew my dad could harbour a grudge , but not like this . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But not like me , ’ Ana wept . |
| 16 | There was silence , but not like before . |
| 17 | But not like prowling round in the dark like a kid . ’ |
| 18 | They take their women as they come — good , bad or indifferent — but not like this . |
| 19 | If there had 've been , we 'd be married now , because I love her , but not like that — not the way you love her . ’ |
| 20 | It sounded like , ‘ Yes but not like this . ’ ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |