Example sentences of "thing he do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's meddling with things he does n't understand . |
| 2 | The only things he does n't like are the narrow ramps on to aeroplanes , so we have to get behind him with a broom . |
| 3 | He tells us that there are three things he does not think acupuncture can cure : existential Angst , low self-esteem and love sickness . |
| 4 | But there are things he does not know , and the knowledge will somewhat better a case which even so is still black enough . |
| 5 | There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself . |
| 6 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 7 | When it came to things he did not know how to draw , he often asked Bobby Hunt to do them . |
| 8 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 9 | They seemed to be teaching him how to do things he did n't want to do more than anything else . |
| 10 | And Miss P told him that if ever any man tried to mess him about or to make him do things he did n't want to do then he should come right back to The Bar and tell us , and we 'd sort the man out for him . |
| 11 | Nothing , except warnings about precisely those things he did n't want Katherine to think about . |
| 12 | True , there were some things he did n't like about the Khedive 's regime , the patronage , the corruption , the inefficiency . |
| 13 | The only thing he does n't like about it is the part where you go to Eurodisney . |
| 14 | His sins of micro-commission were small ; and the macro thing he did not do was hardly a new failure . |
| 15 | Lucie cursed , but dropped down from the cart seat and came to stand behind Gabriel , side-on to the door , snatching sidelong glances at the thing he did not want to see . |
| 16 | So the one thing he did n't expect from me was a thank you . |
| 17 | Well one thing he did n't do was put a woman in the cabinet , and , as I have said , that 's something we 've got an eye on , obviously . |
| 18 | The one thing he did n't ask , for which I was grateful , was what Salome had been doing with Alec Reynolds at midnight on a Saturday down in darkest Kent . |