Example sentences of "things that do " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are just some things that do n't compliment each other , no matter how hard you try , and this is very trying . |
| 7 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 8 | She 's the voice of all things that do n't get a voice . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's these things that do it . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 12 | It 's not that ‘ they 're saying , ‘ We 've got these things that do n't work well and we 'll dump them on unsuspecting countries . ’ ’ |
| 13 | Forever Onward through contraceptive devices and old sticks , carrying the good words to new and freshly rotting society , signalling the path of Entertaining Effervescence and weaving artistic patterns of dirty foam while endeavouring to avoid and repel all hellish floating things that do seek to sink its buoyant ideals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " Well , you know how it is , things that do n't concern you , in the papers and that you do n't always read " em , do you ? |
| 16 | So I do know the different things that do make people feel either a little bit better or might just help them . |
| 17 | There are things that do n't add up . ’ |
| 18 | Erm because these are the sort of things that do n't come over at school . |
| 19 | So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ? |
| 20 | There are a lot of things that do n't fit . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got things in my head that came from nowhere , ’ he said , ‘ things that do n't make sense to me . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yes that vary and things that do n't vary . |
| 26 | And things that do n't vary ? |
| 27 | There are one or two things that do bother me . |
| 28 | Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design . |
| 29 | They may in practice be the only things that do . |
| 30 | There are some things that do have to be done to a certain standard . |