Example sentences of "thing i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 2 | ‘ Why do I have to learn things I do n't want to know ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 3 | You ought to show a bit of gratitude , the things I do for you . ’ |
| 4 | Much of my time is spent doing things I do n't enjoy |
| 5 | ‘ The things I do for that boy , ’ mused Mary , as she jumped off the bike and began to push it up Station Hill . |
| 6 | When we take breaks — when I 'm at home or on vacation — my chops go down drastically because I 'm enjoying my free time and doing things I do n't usually have time to do . |
| 7 | ‘ The things I do for you , Ricky . |
| 8 | I simply can not see the point in having things I do n't need . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I do n't understand , ’ Matilda said to her . |
| 10 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 11 | Essentially , the bisexual Bessie was the Madonna of her day , the Queen Of The Blues , the Empress Of Erotica , her ‘ Empty Bed Blues ’ providing a catalogue of lovers who had satisfied her sexually , while ‘ Foolish Man Blues ’ found her musing about homosexuality : ‘ There 's two things got me puzzled , there 's two things I do n't understand/That 's a mannish-acting woman and a skipping , twistin' woman-acting man . ’ |
| 12 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
| 13 | There 's a thing , because there are a terrible lot of things I do n't like at all of Picasso 's for instance , his versions of ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 14 | Some of the things I do n't think I am . |
| 15 | He has a voracious intelligence which he dismisses as ‘ just a curious mind , but limited because of a lot of things I do n't care for . |
| 16 | Things I do n't like . |
| 17 | Well a mixture between both cos I can er ah go back but there 's lots of things I do just now that were n't about in those days . |
| 18 | The stupidest things I do he calls witty . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 20 | Hair is one of the things I do know something about . |
| 21 | By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation . |
| 22 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
| 23 | ‘ The sort of things I do , well , they 're nothing special : some driving , a spot of shopping — you know , specialist stuff — odd jobs really . |
| 24 | Helping with this is one of the most enjoyable things I do , as she knows . |
| 25 | And I 'm trying to present the kind of things I do in this course and my other course . |
| 26 | The locals are men and women , generally older , their bloated flesh spilling histories of things I do not know . |
| 27 | The things I do for people . |
| 28 | A little tip for you I mean one of the things I do when I 'm writing a training manual or something like that , I will actually write my open questions in really bold letters on the script . |
| 29 | One of the things I do recall , Command in its wisdom used to send some of its very senior people to spend a period — not to fly mind you — but just to see and taste the scene at an operational station . |
| 30 | What would I do without these things I do n't know . |