Example sentences of "things that matter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 2 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 3 | But material resources are not the only things that matter to people . |
| 4 | You think the things that are important to you annoy me the way the things that matter to me annoy you . |
| 5 | Leary said : ‘ My French is only adequate and he does n't speak English but we managed a conversation about the things that matter to us . |
| 6 | Lupus feared his anger and advised others not to provoke it ( " I consider it dangerous to obstruct the king 's orders " ) ; felt hurt when Charles very obviously " does n't care about the things that matter to me " ; appreciated Charles 's personally " asking me at Bourges not long ago what I felt about Predestination " ; and was well aware that Charles " has a face that he puts on when he wants to be charming " . |
| 7 | ‘ You give names to the things that matter to you , and where you live matters . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Michael 's a brilliant lyricist , he can talk about things that matter without it being obvious , so when we got together there was no way we were going to do a creamy , greasy duet . |
| 9 | The coverage of live sport on our screens is usually good ; at times exceptional , but television fails to deal with some of the things that matter in sport : all-seat football stadiums , Manchester 's application for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 , payment in Rugby Union . |