Example sentences of "not [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 . |