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Example sentences for "not what"

  • The false politician asks not what is true, but what is the opinion of the world--not what is right, but what is expedient.

  • Third Thesis:-- We do not what we will, but what we wish.

  • Of course we all know that Mr Dobbs Broughton is not what we can call an educated gentleman.

  • We simply imply that he is not what we call responsible.

  • I hope it is not what occurred to-day at the picture-gallery.

  • Therefore the intelligible species is not what is actually understood, but that by which the intellect understands.

  • But demonstrative pronouns are applied to God as describing what is understood, not what is sensed.

  • But the sensible image is not what is perceived, but rather that by which sense perceives.

  • You're not what a hombre like me calls either square or game.

  • Perhaps the word 'immoral' is not what I mean.

  • Not what you'd call the real thing," replied Carley.

  • They will tell me I judge after the flesh: I answer, Is it then to the flesh the Lord appeals when he says, 'Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

  • There was in these miracles, and I think in all, only a hastening of appearances; the doing of that in a day, which may ordinarily take a thousand years, for with God time is not what it is with us.

  • They are not meant to explain anything, but to rouse a man to the feeling, 'I am not what I ought to be, I do not the thing I ought to do!

  • Is it not what he has been putting forth his energy to give them ever since first he began them to be--the divine nature, God himself?

  • This is not what I call religion, this profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative region of him, if even so deep as that.

  • The Man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became.

  • Not what I Have,' continues he, 'but what I Do is my Kingdom.

  • The good disciples asked they knew not what (Mark 10:38).

  • But no man knows the nature of sin to the full; not what sin in itself is to the full.

  • By his being able to judge by nature, that there is such a thing as sin; as Christ saith, "Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

  • For it is not what a man is not, but what a man does, that declares him a righteous man.

  • For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me.

  • To such then whom Thou commandest me to serve will I discover, not what I have been, but what I now am and what I yet am.

  • That's not what pains me; but I'm thinking of what your papa will say to me when he sees you, miss.

  • That's not what I would have done in your place," replied the old woman.

  • Each of you will do what is best for the other, if not what is best for yourselves.

  • This really is not what I expected of you!

  • A debate is not what a debate used to be; the House is not what the House used to be; even a Cabinet is not what it formerly was.

  • What I am towards you, Rosa, is what I am now-- not what I shall be a little while hence.

  • Now where there is no precept for a foundation; it is not what you by all your reasonings can suggest; can deliver you from the guilt of adding to his word.

  • But, may some say, Our women in this do not what they do of their own heads, they are allowed to do what they do by the church.

  • No," murmured Lecoq, "no, this man is not what he seems to be.

  • I could swear that this affair is not what it seems to be; and I am sure that if we like we can discover the mystery which is concealed beneath present appearances.

  • Ah," he rejoined, "I'm not what I seem to be.

  • Now that people know the prisoner is not what he pretends to be, instead of annoying and hampering me, perhaps they will assist us to discover who he really is.

  • No, that won't do either, for he says, Why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

  • I do not say he might not have said so, or that he does not say what comes to the same thing at other times, but that is not what he says here--that is not the truth he would convey in these words.

  • But that's not what I want," said Betty with a courage that surprised her as much as it surprised him.

  • I say the final test of religion at that great day is not religiousness, but love; not what I have done, not what I have believed; not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life.

  • Capital is not what a man has, but what a man is.

  • Not what a man has, but what he is, is the question, after all.

  • Not what men do, but what their lives promise and prophesy, gives hope to the race.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for some time past; little chapel; not confined; not find; not forget; not know what you; not less; not let; not long; not mean; not mentioned; not mine; not much; not need; not possible; not surprising; not the; not wishing; not without; nothing but; nothing could; nothing had; nothing more; nothing short; should imagine; welcome guest