Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not for creeps like that one over there . |
| 2 | What are we in the job for if not for challenges like this ? |
| 3 | ( That 's why it gets used for only small and specialized purposes , not for things like spaceships hulls ) . |
| 4 | This man could not easily imagine life without hot water , at least not for people like himself and Alice . |
| 5 | An egg not of shell like a bird 's : leathery rather , like a turtle 's . |
| 6 | Not with things like the shopping . |
| 7 | All these soil-inhabiting creatures have to breathe , not with lungs like us , but by a process called diffusion through their porous skins or through special breathing pores . |
| 8 | Like my dad — he really annoys me : when he 's watching ‘ Top of the Pops ’ , if a singer is a bit overweight he goes , ‘ She 's not going to get a hit , not with legs like that . ’ |
| 9 | Not with messages like that . ’ |
| 10 | Not in families like ours . ’ |
| 11 | It is continually suggested to us , however , that ‘ reality ’ is not in fact like novels we have read , that it is mundane and pitiful . |
| 12 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |
| 13 | Not to people like me , anyway … ’ |
| 14 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | If it were n't for people like myself erm then maybe the older German tradition of historical writing would still today be dominant . |