Example sentences of "[be] [adv] what [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , you may find that they are not what you had anticipated and you may need to adapt your performance . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not too late to inform the police , ’ put in Charlotte , pausing to study the other two's reactions and finding them to be exactly what she had expected . |
| 3 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 4 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 5 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 6 | And that is precisely what we had done in Madrid . |
| 7 | As one of the leaders commented , this day 's trek was exactly what we had come to the jungle for . |
| 8 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 9 | That was exactly what she had thought . |
| 10 | That was exactly what she had thought . |
| 11 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 12 | But being careful and bathing was just what we had come to get away from . |
| 13 | Claudia 's hands flew to her throat ; for a moment that was just what she had done . |
| 14 | Her tone implied that he did n't , and it was just what she had intended . |
| 15 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 16 | Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended . |
| 17 | The huge armies of mailed knights and disciplined infantry was not what they had expected . |
| 18 | This was not what I had planned . |
| 19 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 20 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 21 | It was not what she had wanted . |
| 22 | He was not what she had wanted . |
| 23 | This was not what she had intended . |
| 24 | But it was not what she had come to him to do . |
| 25 | It was clear that this was not what she had come here to talk about . |
| 26 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 27 | That was not what she had inferred from Amy 's vehement if disjointed revelations . |
| 28 | To be told she would have to get rid of some of the little she had was not what she had expected — or wanted to hear . |
| 29 | This was not what she had expected — or wanted . |
| 30 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |