Example sentences of "[pers pn] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 2 | Sub-text : ‘ I matter so much and my feelings are so important that you are able to read my mind . ’ |
| 3 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 4 | You 've taught me to care again , and you 've taught me that I matter , that my life is worth something . |
| 5 | I mattered , you see ? |
| 6 | You matter not because you are better or worse than other people but because you are different from them . |
| 7 | You matter now — you 're getting attention and recognition . |
| 8 | You matter to God ! |
| 9 | Not as a member of the human race , but you matter to God as an individual , as a person with all your strengths , your weaknesses , with all our peculiarities and our points , as individuals , we matter to God ! |
| 10 | Constance could not get out of her mind the careless way Gioella had completely taken over Ludovico , excluding her as if she mattered not at all . |
| 11 | Kate was family : she mattered to him . |
| 12 | She said in a rush , ‘ I — I used to dream about being famous , I used to imagine how wonderful it would be , to feel that you mattered , that people knew who you were , that you were somebody . ’ |
| 13 | That was when I realised how much you mattered to me . ’ |
| 14 | All of us should feel special and that we matter . |
| 15 | And it 's good for us to recognise and to be aware and to realize , that in a day when we are so often just numbers , that as individuals we matter to God . |
| 16 | Not as a member of the human race , but you matter to God as an individual , as a person with all your strengths , your weaknesses , with all our peculiarities and our points , as individuals , we matter to God ! |
| 17 | If she really was dead none of them mattered anyway . |
| 18 | When we finally had the showdown , he actually told me that none of them mattered . |
| 19 | All this talk of his clothes , his grubby raincoat , his boots — what did they matter ? |
| 20 | Do they matter any more ? |
| 21 | Do n't they matter ? ’ |
| 22 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 23 | She would not let him matter . |
| 24 | If these records are too selfconsciously trying to please everybody , to sound like they matter to the person he is now , at least he appears to see the problem . |
| 25 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 26 | They respond to affection , being made to feel that they matter and to the opportunity to talk about or work through their past , especially in ways that help to raise their self-esteem . |
| 27 | ‘ They matter to me . |
| 28 | To indicate that they matter ask them questions , entertain them , encourage them to respond . |
| 29 | The thesis that moral codes function similarly , despite differences in content , has been analysed within International Relations in the literature on belief-systems.The analysis has been helped by assuming that its task is to explain how belief-systems operate , whereas Winch invites us to understand why they matter . |
| 30 | Its theme was Mistakes in Literature and Whether They Matter . |