Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] n't make " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’ |
| 2 | But it certainly never bothered me , or did n't make any difference to one 's work . |
| 3 | Things happen in these hills that do n't make it on to the evening bulletins . |
| 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 | ‘ I take on too many projects that do n't make any money . |
| 6 | He say because you let him stay with you , that do n't make you whore . |
| 7 | gon na take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job , that do n't make good business sense . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got things in my head that came from nowhere , ’ he said , ‘ things that do n't make sense to me . |
| 9 | A Tory Transport Secretary pledging a national transport policy and oodles of public money for services that do n't make money . |
| 10 | The thi th See the thing about maths is it 's very easy to learn the rules but but hard to understand when we 're doing things that do n't make sense . |
| 11 | Well I I had n't been shutting the one that do n't make no difference still , there 's only cos Pavarotti 's out anyway ! |
| 12 | rubbishy little tune , right , that do n't make sense and she plays it and it 's all me . |
| 13 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 14 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 15 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 16 | She was wearing a black and white sharkskin dress that did n't make you wonder whether she was the same shape the whole way down . |
| 17 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 18 | She was fairly sure that did n't make sense , but was n't prepared to argue . |
| 19 | She gazed up into his face with bemused wonder and saw an expression there that did n't make sense . |
| 20 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 21 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 22 | Those that did n't make it , crumbled |
| 23 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 24 | ‘ I know that does n't make what 's happened any better , but it is finished ... |
| 25 | And of course if you strip everything that 's profitable out of it , like the erm er the railway air services went , erm the er the er erm hotels , ferries , everything else you can think of , you 're left with er with a runt that does n't make money , and not surprisingly the government then closes it down . |
| 26 | Tell your reader what questions you are going to answer and do n't make promises you ca n't keep ( see pp. 92 – 4 ) . |
| 27 | Keep lips together while drawing the lipline and do n't make it too heavy . |
| 28 | At any rate , treat all results with the greatest of caution , and do n't make too much of them . |
| 29 | Oh , please God , she prayed , shake Perdita out of this ghastly mood and make her happy again , and look after darling Violet and Eddie , and Gainsborough and Ethel , and please God , if you think it 's right , let me fall in love with a man who is n't married , who falls in love with me and do n't make it too long . |
| 30 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |