Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’
2 I have tried the new Marshall Bluesbreaker FX pedal but this did not sound like a real valve amp just starting to distort .
3 Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly .
4 Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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 She did not look like a happy woman .
9 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 .
10 If , while on his litter , the mirza should pass through a bazaar and see something which appeals to him ‘ he should not make any difficulty about the price , and ought not to buy like a common trader . ’
11 And despite being stuffed full of capability and battery , they 're light enough ( 8kg ) to sit on the desktop and compact enough ( 15 by 10 by 27mm ) not to look like a Bulgarian chip fryer .
12 Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism .
13 Some thought he had suffered a momentary heart problem , but he was not running like a tired horse and afterwards was completely sound .
14 Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to .
15 I should be running up a flag to celebrate her going , not behaving like a weak boy myself .
16 Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea .
17 Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher :
18 Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ?
19 Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’
20 Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics .
21 that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick .
22 Does n't look like a perfect pitch ?
23 Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty !
24 She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately .
25 Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine .
26 ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’
27 erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster .
28 Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out .
29 It does n't look like a rubber tree
30 Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree .
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