Example sentences of "n't what " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't what ? he said . |
| 2 | You did n't what ? |
| 3 | Face white , jaws shaking : You did n't what ? |
| 4 | It was n't what she meant . |
| 5 | He decided that after all England was n't what she seemed . |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't what you might think . |
| 7 | This is n't what I meant at all ! |
| 8 | What was the use of saying anything if it was n't what they wanted ? |
| 9 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 10 | ‘ Nostalgia ai n't what it used to be , ’ interjected Andrew , quoting the latest college graffiti . |
| 11 | It was n't what I really wanted . ’ |
| 12 | Trains are n't what they were , there 's been a revolution in trains . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't what ? ’ he said , smiling . |
| 14 | This is n't what I wanted but it feels right . |
| 15 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 16 | This was n't what it was all about . |
| 17 | This was n't what you did on a Tuesday afternoon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was n't what I had expected . |
| 20 | K. M. Bribes were n't what you might call rife . |
| 21 | It was n't what I was doing that was turning her on but the fact that I was doing it there , doing it then , in front of her husband and her husband 's partner and her husband 's partner 's wife and one of her own colleagues . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ It would be common enough , but that is n't what the Patriarch was implying . |
| 23 | And that is n't what I risked my skin and yours for . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ For God 's sake , ’ Pat interposes , ‘ do you suppose that that is n't what we 're all trying to do ? |
| 25 | ‘ Ca n't what ? ’ |
| 26 | But as soon as we hit with something that was n't what we were about , we always tried to get the band back to what we thought it should be — three guitars and drums played loud by four New York bums . |
| 27 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |
| 28 | It was n't what he wanted . |
| 29 | My wife was the first to notice it : running a bath was n't what it used to be ; no more gush of water , just a diminishing trickle . |
| 30 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |