Example sentences of "thing that do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he turned or moved , they swung about stiffly like things that did not belong to him . |
| 2 | Oh , oh right erm oh we 're talking about the the actual titles of the things that did n't start till oh the sort of U K version |
| 3 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 4 | right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see |
| 5 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 6 | There were so many things that did n't add up . |
| 7 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 8 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 9 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 10 | In the end an expensive system is installed not to fulfil the task but to do lots of other fascinating things that do not need doing . |
| 11 | Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design . |
| 12 | Or rather , it will be economical to use one of these terms in a yet more general way , to cover all of these things and also things that do not fall naturally into any of the mentioned ordinary or semi-technical categories or ones like them . |
| 13 | Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system — ‘ the wire-pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence ’ . |
| 14 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 15 | It 's one of the things that do n't change from childhood to adulthood — but worst of all for De Gaulle , his companions were , unlike him , real journalists . |
| 16 | And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got things in my head that came from nowhere , ’ he said , ‘ things that do n't make sense to me . |
| 18 | The thi th See the thing about maths is it 's very easy to learn the rules but but hard to understand when we 're doing things that do n't make sense . |
| 19 | That wretched man steals anything that 's of good quality that he can get his hands on — not for himself since they 're usually things that do n't fit him — he sells them to the second-hand clothes stalls on San Lorenzo market . ’ |
| 20 | There are a lot of things that do n't fit . |
| 21 | Yes that vary and things that do n't vary . |
| 22 | And things that do n't vary ? |
| 23 | She 's the voice of all things that do n't get a voice . |
| 24 | There are just some things that do n't compliment each other , no matter how hard you try , and this is very trying . |
| 25 | Erm because these are the sort of things that do n't come over at school . |
| 26 | I can choose not to do things that do n't excite me , but fortunately things are happening that do you know . |
| 27 | Sometimes I wear things that do n't conform because I want to say to people : I do n't want to be the way you want me to be . |
| 28 | When we 're writing the , the things that do n't apply in the job file we have to , presumably we have to reference procedure , say we 're not following this Q P five point five but we are doing . |
| 29 | There are things that do n't add up . ’ |
| 30 | What we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that do n't help you fill it . |