Example sentences of "not [prep] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 2 | Confidence is based on self-esteem and the ability to value yourself not for what you have achieved but simply for being you . |
| 3 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 4 | ‘ Not after what ye 've done ! ’ |
| 5 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 6 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 7 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 8 | Not like what they 've got to put up with now — ferreting round in the council bins for old take-aways and kipping in cardboard boxes . |
| 9 | ‘ Not from what I 've heard , ’ she said , and John asked in surprise , ‘ Why ? |
| 10 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |