Example sentences of "thing that [pers pn] do not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question is an attention-focusing device , especially on things that we do not yet know but know that we do not know . |
| 2 | According to Richards , therefore , critics need two things that they did not habitually possess at the time he was writing , and usually do not possess now : a theory of communication and a theory of valuation . |
| 3 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 4 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 5 | It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about , |
| 6 | I mean I am constantly being confronted with students who do things that I do n't actually understand , and they 're my own students , and actually that 's quite nice , I like that . |
| 7 | They do things that you do n't normally get from average places |
| 8 | And you do talk about things that you do n't normally . |
| 9 | O K , and I 'd like you to be able to tell me not only something about him , her , but also obviously the three things that you do n't currently know . |
| 10 | If there is a complex thing that we do not yet understand , we can come to understand it in terms of simpler parts that we do already understand . |