Example sentences of "[that] do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invent a few rules that do n't mean anything so that you can ruin your health trying to change them . |
| 2 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 3 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The cosmetic industry is bizarre because it is run by men who create needs that do n't exist , making women feel incredibly dissatisfied with their bodies . |
| 6 | It features main bearing caps that do n't have to be individually matched to the block — something that could make the production process of any engine much easier . |
| 7 | Things happen in these hills that do n't make it on to the evening bulletins . |
| 8 | You see things in New York that do n't happen in London . |
| 9 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I love shops anyway , so it would make sense to stock products that do n't damage the environment . ’ |
| 12 | They asked him how he did it , and he replied , ‘ I just put away the bits of wood that do n't look like elephants ’ . |
| 13 | An enthusiastic organic-only company that ‘ will probably drop any wines that do n't get the EC seal of approval ’ , which is a shame , but it has a very strong list of certified wines . |
| 14 | Most bedrooms have private facilities , and those that do n't have free use of a separate bathroom . |
| 15 | Do some of them believe in gods that exist and others believe in gods that do n't exist ? |
| 16 | The classroom teacher may be concerned with the parents that do n't turn up — those parents that the teacher particularly wanted to ‘ have a go at ’ because of their child 's poor behaviour , lack of effort , continual lateness or some other failure to conform . |
| 17 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ That do n't surprise me , ’ retorted Nelly . |
| 20 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 21 | But everything else about the electoral coverage left me cold because it had such a restricted view of politics as a game with rules that do n't actually touch people . |
| 22 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 23 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
| 24 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 25 | that do n't rhyme and go on longer than you |
| 26 | Barns , silos , milking parlours , roads and slurry tanks are just some of the farm additions that do n't need planning permission . |
| 27 | Beware of those that do n't declare their contents ; some contain only cheap vegetable oils with just a tiny amount of fragrance . |
| 28 | But they 're still better off than the other Arabs , the ones that do n't work for the French . |
| 29 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 30 | I mean , I like playing , and they 're the band that do n't play … a situation which does n't seem to have changed very much . |