Example sentences of "not like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's not like it used to be . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not like you to be ill , ’ her mother said . |
| 3 | ‘ Och yes , that is true — not like your fine slave-traders and moneylenders down at Perth . ’ |
| 4 | It was not like her to flirt with married Englishmen . |
| 5 | When the new version of the C compiler is released , I sincerely hope that Motorola does not charge for the update , I also hope it provides an adequate manual not like the scant document which accompanied version 1.233 . |
| 6 | English , as the Newbolt Report and Leavis had insisted , was not like other academic subjects , though all the pressures of the modern academy , which include both privileges and responsibilities , have tried to make it come in line . |
| 7 | It was not like that in the Sixties . |
| 8 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 9 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 10 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 11 | Never , not like this . |
| 12 | I shouted above the din , ‘ Big change in the scenery now , not like the peace and quiet of the waterworks at Southampton . ’ |
| 13 | The dance band is playing , sounds like a military tune , certainly not like the local dances back home . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're not like a horse where you have a rein . |
| 15 | Although the chair was a regius chair , it was not like most regius chairs an appointment by the King . |
| 16 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 17 | Not like learning to drive a car , not even like riding a horse . |
| 18 | But I am not like that . |
| 19 | It sounds sort of sing-song — not like someone talking at all , more like a tune . |
| 20 | Not like wild trees at all . |
| 21 | At least on the farm I can work ‘ flexi-time ’ , not like some of the boys who have to be at their civy job at half eight in the morning . |
| 22 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 23 | Their marriage was not like anyone else 's . |
| 24 | It 's not like him at all , ’ Nurse Bodkin reported . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not like that at all . |
| 26 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 27 | But it 's just not like that . |
| 28 | I do n't think so because I 'm not really like that and people who know me know that I 'm not like that . |
| 29 | He 's not like that . |
| 30 | I walked in with David and there was this guy with a mass of curly hair siting behind a desk , looking very Jewish , not like the Jewish businessman , though he is a wonderful businessman . |