Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would not disappear like a wraith the moment she turned her back . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Let no one see it whom you do not trust like a brother . ’ |
| 4 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 5 | 8 Equally , do not act like a martinet . |
| 6 | That is not shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 7 | A recent issue of American Cosmopolitan had an even more blatant example : an article ( patronisingly titled ‘ Why not speak like a grown-up ? ’ ) listed various things for women to avoid when speaking in work settings , including tag questions , rising intonation and high pitch , because these things undermine a speaker 's perceived authority . |
| 8 | Most textbooks are not written like a thriller , though it might be interesting if they were . |
| 9 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 10 | You can not feel like a woman in such 'orrible bloomaires ! ’ |
| 11 | But Rachel did not feel like a bride . |
| 12 | We 'd get £50 or £60 a night — which might not sound like a lot but that 's still what young bands get for the same gigs today . |
| 13 | I have tried the new Marshall Bluesbreaker FX pedal but this did not sound like a real valve amp just starting to distort . |
| 14 | Six trades in GPA debt may not sound like a ground swell , but deciding to sell is not easy for secured creditors . |
| 15 | ’ This does not sound like a school exercise : more like a piece of self-imposed apprenticeship . |
| 16 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 17 | This does not sound like a player who has requested a transfer . |
| 18 | It did not sound like a threat ; there was even something of a promise about it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 22 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This did not look like a cost effective national strategy for community care . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 30 | 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 . |