Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] what [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when people use the word ‘ chemicals ’ that is not what they usually mean . |
| 2 | That 's right , and until he does that , until he does , as it were , grasp the mettle and begin to express his purposes , his procedures , directly to the computer , he will always be at the risk that what gets expressed is not what he quite wanted , just a little bit different , he and he alone , is the person who knows what the company purposes are . |
| 3 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 4 | It 's not what I usually do . |
| 5 | It 's not what you normally do , is it ? |
| 6 | You always get trouble with them in psychological tests , cos you either use terms which nobody knows what they mean , or you use terms which people have meanings for and that 's not what you actually mean by them . |
| 7 | Pocock 's method of ‘ shifting the belly band ’ or adjusting the bridle link position was not what we currently accept as a 2-line system.That described by J.Woodbridge Davis in Aeronautics of August 1894 for his method of steering a life-saving device undoubtedly was a progenitor of what we use today . |
| 8 | It was n't what I really wanted . ’ |
| 9 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |