Example sentences of "[adv] exactly [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At nine o'clock exactly Wemmick fired it . |
| 2 | He 's not exactly Douglas Fairbanks , but some might consider him handsome . ’ |
| 3 | It was getting greener outside the windows , not exactly country but a lot of trees and leaves and green grass among the buildings . |
| 4 | We 're not exactly country yokels , but all the same selling garments in London , yes , to be honest , it was very exciting , ’ Dai Jones admitted twenty years later . |
| 5 | John Major , if not exactly King Log , is no political magician . |
| 6 | As Lisa stuttered to a halt — had he read her mind or something ? — he added , ‘ After all , we 're not exactly strangers any more . ’ |
| 7 | and news so we 're not exactly strangers . |
| 8 | Not exactly Bill Gates but then who is . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , not exactly Patrick , but Anne . |
| 10 | Since Tuesday is not exactly Unity II , but only its stepchild , much of the factionalism inside the industry is still lively . |
| 11 | Hepzibah and Mister Johnny were not exactly widows and orphans of course but perhaps , Carrie thought , Mr Evans could be persuaded to think it was the Lord 's will to help them as well . |
| 12 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 13 | as it is at the Lyceum that there is kind of historically a certain amount of , not exactly friction , but I mean something that has |
| 14 | Romance and realism , if not exactly enemies , were always opposites . |
| 15 | The seven part-time Accounting Standards Board members , while not exactly household names , will be familiar to many accountants . |
| 16 | Well how do we feel , it seems to me not exactly consensus on this , this issue ? |
| 17 | ‘ Not exactly prisoners , yet . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not exactly James Bond . ’ |
| 19 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 20 | One particularly helpful observation made by the report was the identification of three key features which , although not exactly prescriptions for success , are certainly aspects that need to be incorporated . |
| 21 | He s ok , but not exactly Mr reliable . |
| 22 | Not exactly Jean Paul Gaultier , but it 's a start . |
| 23 | It 's not exactly techno but techno is going through the ‘ Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps , Please ’ phase that punk went through . |
| 24 | Well , it 's it 's not exactly football it 's just like a tragic downful slide , is n't it . |
| 25 | Gagosian-Halley-Sonnabend : not exactly Queensberry Rules |
| 26 | Tealtaoich was not exactly padding into the forest and he was not precisely slinking into it either . |
| 27 | She 's not exactly Pavlova , but what do you expect from a country girl who runs a dancing class ? |
| 28 | And the man is rude : in the same debate , he was questioned by John Townend , a Tory MP who , while not exactly Socrates in a suit , is a perfectly amiable cove . |
| 29 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 30 | Not exactly bell , book and candle . |