Example sentences of "n't like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no , but it ai n't like normal , walking down the street with the lights all fuzzy . |
| 2 | It was n't like all your basic items , or anything . |
| 3 | They were n't like other infantry , drilled to stand in line and fight until they fell or fled , but skirmishers , men of judgment and initiative , who had to decide for themselves when to fire , advance , retreat , surrender , or die . |
| 4 | I thought Gran and Jake had ruined my childhood , Jake because he was n't like other boys and Gran because to my mind she would n't do enough about him . |
| 5 | Money worries are n't like other worries . |
| 6 | They ai n't like other people , though , these dons . |
| 7 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 8 | It just is n't like that anywhere else . |
| 9 | Compare them with a tanker full of chemicals which are corrosive , taint water at minute levels and kill living organisms at low doses : PCBs are n't like that . |
| 10 | One of the most enduring and widespread of these prejudices , which achieved the status of a popular myth , was that ‘ things were n't like that in my day ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , Pop , it was n't like that . |
| 12 | It was n't like that in London . |
| 13 | It was n't like that . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was n't like that at all . |
| 15 | It was n't like that at all . |
| 16 | I had the idea that it was going to be ‘ Do this , do that ’ but it was n't like that . |
| 17 | ‘ Women are n't like that . |
| 18 | You 've made the characters intelligent , and life is n't like that . |
| 19 | It was a particular thing , an episode , a historical event , one ca n't extract a world meaning from it , or a cosmic signal , history is n't like that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Wait a minute — it was n't like that at all , not like that . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't like that . |
| 22 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 23 | We try to believe they 've got power within themselves but it is n't like that , believe me . |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't like that . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't like that when he came in . ’ |
| 26 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 27 | Here , it was n't like that . |
| 28 | Karen Parsons was n't like that at all . |
| 29 | I was expecting to see rows and rows of beds , but it was n't like that . |
| 30 | But he was n't like that at all , in fact . |