Example sentences of "[det] things do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A worker said : ‘ The industry has changed a lot and is now highly-mechanised , and we work continental shifts , but some things do n't change . |
| 2 | Even so , some things do n't change . |
| 3 | Strange how some things do n't change . |
| 4 | Some things do n't change ! |
| 5 | Some things do n't change : the ritual screams ; the garments and flowers thrown on to the stage ; and the suggestiveness . |
| 6 | try things and we discover some things do n't work very |
| 7 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 8 | But , as a sign that some things do not change , Lord McAlpine , former Conservative Party treasurer , is expected to host a small party for friends , many connected with the ancien regime around Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | Some things do not change . |
| 10 | Some things do not change despite time . |
| 11 | She felt she should reassure Constance , with a sane and cheerful smile , that such things did n't go on in their street , but Constance reminded her that they did . |
| 12 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 13 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 14 | The fact that he ca n't remember the exact distance or his position is typical of the man , such things do n't matter to him . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you 've forgotten , Caroline — such things do n't mean a thing to me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The fact Gary Lineker has said these things does not alter my feelings at all . ’ |
| 17 | But these things do n't bring us salvation . |
| 18 | He may condescend perhaps to think I may be good enough for his harlot and these things do n't disgrace men that ruin poor women as the world goes . |
| 19 | These things do n't happen . ’ |
| 20 | These things do n't work like that do they ? |
| 21 | ‘ Petrol , ’ I said , ‘ these things do n't run off fresh air , you know . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As far as Marshal Tolonen is concerned , these things do not exist . |
| 23 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 24 | Sometimes the name originally given is no longer apt , because of revision of genera or species ; and sometimes close species put on one plate , as with Lodge 's pictures ( which are of New Zealand birds ) , are now separated ; but these things do not seem to matter too much to the publishers and editors . |
| 25 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 26 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 27 | You tend to think oh so many things do n't dissolve in water but think of the other ways round . |
| 28 | ‘ Those things do n't grow on limestone soil , ’ said Helen . |
| 29 | You ca n't have those my dear , those things do n't work . |
| 30 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |