Example sentences of "things [pers pn] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know snip ribbons and things I du n no , I 'm not suggesting will you find out now , but there 's something |
| 2 | By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation . |
| 3 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 4 | The locals are men and women , generally older , their bloated flesh spilling histories of things I do not know . |
| 5 | One of the things I do not know about them , that 's women , is what they talk about and why the men are talking . |
| 6 | ‘ Why do I have to learn things I do n't want to know ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 7 | I did n't even write , I was afraid to , co I 've , I 've been inv I 'm involved in so many other things I do n't want to get involved in anything else . |
| 8 | He has a voracious intelligence which he dismisses as ‘ just a curious mind , but limited because of a lot of things I do n't care for . |
| 9 | Some of the things I do n't think I am . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure , you ca n't ca n't say unless you 've experienced things I do n't think . |
| 11 | just things I do n't have to worry about then really |
| 12 | I simply can not see the point in having things I do n't need . |
| 13 | Much of my time is spent doing things I do n't enjoy |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I do n't understand , ’ Matilda said to her . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 16 | The falsified application , all the contradictions , all the things I do n't understand . ’ |
| 17 | There 's a thing , because there are a terrible lot of things I do n't like at all of Picasso 's for instance , his versions of ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 18 | Things I do n't like . |
| 19 | I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears . |
| 20 | What would I do without these things I do n't know . |
| 21 | Oh there 's so many of them , so many things I do n't know |
| 22 | How anybody can walk in those things I do n't know of any . |
| 23 | For these things I did not forgive her . |
| 24 | I have learned many things I did not know about events in this region . ’ |
| 25 | and the things I did n't give him . |
| 26 | Accused me of things I did n't want to face . |
| 27 | A child 's education — they would teach it things I did n't want it to learn , at school . |
| 28 | I had a very happy time looking at things I did n't want |
| 29 | but other things I did n't want her to know . |
| 30 | All the things I did n't do right . |