Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The locals are men and women , generally older , their bloated flesh spilling histories of things I do not know . |
| 4 | One of the things I do not know about them , that 's women , is what they talk about and why the men are talking . |
| 5 | For these things I did not forgive her . |
| 6 | I have learned many things I did not know about events in this region . ’ |
| 7 | On one side list all the things about yourself that you like ; on the other put all the things you do not like . |
| 8 | There were bowls of salad , vegetables , sauces and pickles , and things she did not recognize . |
| 9 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 10 | That was one of the things we did not know . |
| 11 | In a sense , it is the counterpart of our need for autonomy : while autonomy is the freedom to make things happen , security is the freedom from things we do not want to happen . |
| 12 | I can not say for sure that there is any risk to the carp 's health , but that is a classic case of playing around with things we do not understand ! |
| 13 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 14 | With regard to things we do not know it is more difficult . |
| 15 | Advertising changes society ; makes people buy things they do not want ; enables multinational capitalistic monopolies to batten on the working classes . |
| 16 | Consequently there are several things they do not know . |
| 17 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 18 | Poorly trained managers who found themselves faced with new , rapidly changing technologies developed technophobia out of fear of things they did not understand . |
| 19 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 20 | If there is time , students should now be encouraged to go back to some of the more difficult Tape Units dealing with connected speech ( say from Tape Unit 12 onwards , missing out Tape Unit 15 ) ; they will probably discover a lot of things they did not notice before . |
| 21 | Erm but one of the things they did not like is for erm to have a sales consultant on the medical practice for three weeks using their |
| 22 | He tells us that there are three things he does not think acupuncture can cure : existential Angst , low self-esteem and love sickness . |
| 23 | But there are things he does not know , and the knowledge will somewhat better a case which even so is still black enough . |
| 24 | There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself . |
| 25 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 26 | When it came to things he did not know how to draw , he often asked Bobby Hunt to do them . |
| 27 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 28 | ‘ … in such a thing I do not trust myself . |
| 29 | O'Connor , jnr said ‘ I hit the ball under every tree and bush and the only thing I did not suffer was a heart attack . ’ |
| 30 | The one thing I did not want was an internal . |