Example sentences of "that do [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words the states of mind that do nothing for the healing process . |
| 2 | There 's nothing worse than people just spitting out albums ; you get all these mediocre albums that do nothing but take up shelf space . |
| 3 | With our stage and our workshops , which are better than any theatre in the world , we are able to achieve really striking stage pictures ; and they have nothing to do with these modern productions that do everything contrary to the music . |
| 4 | The attitude of the church has made it difficult for governments to openly promote birth-control programs , that do anything more than advocate natural methods . |
| 5 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 6 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 7 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 8 | Thanks to her I still had a roof over my head , but this economic patronage subtly altered relations between us in a way that did nothing to improve my self-respect . |
| 9 | Faye demanded , in her pert , pretty way that did nothing to hide her seriousness , why all these plans had been made without a meeting to get everyone 's approval ? |
| 10 | Under fierce lights that did nothing for her head , a doctor and a technician examined them one at a time . |
| 11 | She waited for him to continue speaking , but he simply studied her with a detached speculation that did nothing to soothe her ragged nerves . |
| 12 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | He said it was worthless having a respected financial sector that did nothing to help the economy and added that the vested interests of the sector needed to be tackled so that the benefits could be accrued by everyone in Scotland and not just a selected minority . |
| 14 | You know that er French pol There was er factories away out at that just er that did nothing else but take chair work you know . |
| 15 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 16 | So was he the guy that did everything himself then ? |
| 17 | There were no new fodder or root crops , except for the various leguminous plants that did something to improve fallows in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Well she I think it was Karen that did something for Children in Need last year and she sang on the air . |
| 19 | MI5 and Special Branch also open mail illegally and break into so many properties that they have one section that does nothing else . |
| 20 | Oh yes , we 've got such and such a fella out there that does nothing but that out all day long . |
| 21 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 22 | I said or a teddy that does something . |
| 23 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |