Example sentences of "[verb] not look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 2 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 6 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
| 7 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't look like a typical Tory woman to me , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 14 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the odd black one that does n't look like a key at all . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
| 19 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |