Example sentences of "n't look the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't looked the scruffy type , but she had no way of telling what his idea of dinner might be . |
| 2 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 3 | ‘ Collins was unbeaten when he faced me and he did n't look the same fighter coming off a loss . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 5 | You do n't look the same from this side of the light Brenda . |
| 6 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |
| 7 | It does n't look the same at all if you compare a finished course to the original landscape . ’ |
| 8 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |
| 9 | I 'd rather go in the shop and see it cos sometimes , especially if it 's got a pattern on turn out to be better than the catalogue cos when it comes , it do n't look the same , and then the same colour do you ? |
| 10 | Well it wo n't look the same , but still |
| 11 | to me this is , a square does n't look the same as the round |
| 12 | Does n't look the same breed as these though . |
| 13 | ’ Well , all I can say , Miss Lightbody , is that you do n't look the slightest bit awful to me and , second , that your sister 's explanation as to why you were absent last week is good enough to me . |