Example sentences of "n't [verb] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
2 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
3 | Our month in Borneo certainly did n't feel like an organised holiday . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
6 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
7 | 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 ! |
8 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
9 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
10 | ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |
14 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
15 | On the face of it , The Shamen ( bespectacled ex-indie rocker Colin , gabby geeky white rapper Mister C and part-time disco diva Jhelisa Anderson ) do n't look like an obvious pop proposition . |
16 | And the first thing I have to say a about the way the the place runs , is that it does n't run like an ordinary museum , nor does it run like and ordinary house . |
17 | Now some people , even though the Green Party has er been an established party for some time now , might feel that er it , this is the Green Party perhaps coming of age because it does n't sound like a Green issue , you 're , you 're discussing things across the board at the moment are n't you |
18 | Neat terraced houses , densely populated , it does n't vote like a northern city unfortunately . |
19 | It might n't seem like a happy arrangement but after so many years it 's become one . |
20 | ‘ Do n't talk like an old woman in a village . |