Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [Wh det] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stanforth was not entirely what she had expected , but neither , she deduced from the covert glances he was using upon her like measuring instruments , was she quite matching up to his preconceived picture of her . |
| 2 | there is a hardcore , see , it 's not necessarily what they 've done , but when you meet them there 's something instinctively repulsive about them |
| 3 | Mr. Stubbs , who lives at Corry Road , Hindhead refers to the great environmental writers and adds , ‘ I salute these noble men and women and hope that people will read their work and learn not only what we have lost but also what can still be saved in our beautiful world . ’ |
| 4 | And as I become … and as I remain … more relaxed … and less tense each day … so I will develop much more confidence in myself … more confidence in my ability to do … not only what I have to do each day … more confidence in my ability to do whatever I ought to be able to do … without fear of failure … without fear of consequences … without unnecessary anxiety … without uneasiness . |
| 5 | This is important when dealing with older people who in many cases are not now what they have been , making the counselling task different from that of any other age group . |
| 6 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 7 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 8 | ‘ A threesome was not quite what you had in mind , was it ? ’ |
| 9 | Even with them pleine-airsme was not quite what it had been made out to be . |
| 10 | I had to admit my first impression was not quite what I had expected : instead of bold cliffs and mountain peaks , all we could see from the heaving deck of the boat was a seemingly endless beach of black shingle fringed by white breakers . |
| 11 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 12 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 13 | I do n't now what he 's done to it . |
| 14 | Although the audience nodded their heads through all this , it was n't really what they had come to see . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps he is n't quite what we 've been used to , but I thought we might give him a trial . |
| 16 | He tried to say it was n't quite what he had in mind . |
| 17 | If you did get one , you 'd be permanently broke , which is n't quite what I had in mind . |
| 18 | ‘ That was n't quite what I had in mind . ’ |
| 19 | So perhaps if people were aware of some of the places where wasps can go within their home , they might be able to sort of take those conscious That was n't actually what I had |