Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
| 2 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 3 | I have tried the new Marshall Bluesbreaker FX pedal but this did not sound like a real valve amp just starting to distort . |
| 4 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 5 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 9 | But it all seemed very appropriate and did n't seem like a headstrong , desperate manoeuvre in any sense . |
| 10 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 11 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
| 12 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |