Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Firm ’ reflects people 's awareness in the 90s of the possibility of waking up to realise you 're not who you wanted to be , ’ said director Pollack . |
| 2 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |
| 3 | It was not something you took to the doctor — until Valium and Librium arrived on the market . |
| 4 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 5 | But then Matthew was not what he appeared to be . |
| 6 | Yeah well it was the , it was a week ago so it 's not what I did to it , it would n't stay soggy after what I did to it . |
| 7 | Extract 2 oh listen I wanted to tell you one of the girls in my supply class we 'll hoover when we come back wo n't we she said to me she looked at my shoes and she said you 've got flashy shoes or something I said I got them in Spain she said Miss are you Spanish I thought it was really funny |
| 8 | She was n't what she wanted to be either . |