Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would not disappear like a wraith the moment she turned her back . |
| 2 | If it turns out that she is not like her husband linguistically , the difference is not treated like the difference between miners and public schoolboys . |
| 3 | Theodora had by now abandoned all attempts not to sound like an interrogator . |
| 4 | Let no one see it whom you do not trust like a brother . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was disconcerting to his whole thesis that Branson did not behave like the enemy enough . |
| 7 | 8 Equally , do not act like a martinet . |
| 8 | That is not shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most textbooks are not written like a thriller , though it might be interesting if they were . |
| 11 | I 'm not acting like the girl of his dreams I was . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You can not feel like a woman in such 'orrible bloomaires ! ’ |
| 14 | But Rachel did not feel like a bride . |
| 15 | ’ This does not sound like a school exercise : more like a piece of self-imposed apprenticeship . |
| 16 | It did not sound like a threat ; there was even something of a promise about it . |
| 17 | Six trades in GPA debt may not sound like a ground swell , but deciding to sell is not easy for secured creditors . |
| 18 | This does not sound like a player who has requested a transfer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This did not look like a cost effective national strategy for community care . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mortimer did not look like a country doctor . |
| 24 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ He does not look like a man , ’ he maintained stubbornly . |
| 27 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 28 | His letter had not contained any regrets for her forthcoming ordeal and he did not look like a man who would have much patience with women in any case . |
| 29 | She did not look like a child dressing up , more like the daughter of a medieval family , dressed always as a smaller version of the adults , a woman at eleven or twelve . |
| 30 | 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 . |