Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] like a [adj] " 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 | the brace restricts your knee ( to stop unstable movements ) and it will NOT function like a normal , uninjured knee joint ; |
14 | Some thought he had suffered a momentary heart problem , but he was not running like a tired horse and afterwards was completely sound . |
15 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
16 | At 22 , he has shrugged off his brat-pack contemporaries by simply not behaving like a typical ’ brat ’ . |
17 | I should be running up a flag to celebrate her going , not behaving like a weak boy myself . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
20 | He always used to lecture people , tell them about the honesty of the artist , the necessity not to speak like a bourgeois . |
21 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
22 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ You do n't look like a typical Tory woman to me , ’ he said . |
25 | ‘ It 's the odd black one that does n't look like a key at all . |
26 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
27 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
28 | 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 ! |
29 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
30 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |