Example sentences of "does [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the firm does badly they can leave , but this will necessitate a loss of human capital assuming they have accumulated some firm-specific skills . |
| 2 | It does rather I mean there 's howling ! |
| 3 | ‘ He does only what he has been told . ’ |
| 4 | By so doing , one player does better whichever choice the other player makes . |
| 5 | it really does So what 's the latest on the cricket have you heard any more ? |
| 6 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 7 | When he does so he tries to keep the lunch simple , with one or two courses and no alcohol . |
| 8 | As he does so he stops the car because he sees water in the road which is coming from a site on the left hand side . |
| 9 | As he does so he keeps looking at her with a gentle expression . |
| 10 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 11 | Unless she does so there will be further interest arising on those unpaid amounts in addition to the interest arising on the investigation years . |
| 12 | If he does so there should be no need for the court to exercise its power of appointment under s41(3) . |
| 13 | Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus . |
| 14 | Although Mary very rarely cooks trout , when she does so it tastes delicious . |
| 15 | ‘ To me , if the kitchen 's not smelling of delicious food then there 's something wrong at home , ’ says Sheila , who does all her cooking herself . |
| 16 | As Table 3.4 shows , most of the women shop six times a week , only four shop two or three times a week , and no housewife does all her shopping once a week . |
| 17 | She works in the shop from 9 am until 5 pm , but as she awaits the infrequent customers she is not idle ; she cuts her cloth and does all her hand sewing . |
| 18 | He does all his work by telephone and letter and computer . |
| 19 | He 's back home where his mum does all his cooking , washing and ironing for him . |
| 20 | She does all his dirty work for him . |
| 21 | The skilful dealer does all he can to maintain the illusion , by for example , saying reassuringly : " My clients ' interests are my own . " |
| 22 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 23 | In typical Whig language , Ferguson concluded that the Sovereign having no other Ground of claim to any Power or Prerogative , save what he hath from the Constitution which hath settled and vested them in him , That Prince who goes about to overthrow this , does all he can to cancel his own Right . |
| 24 | In the great Victorian house , lives are inevitably connected because they are passed beneath a single roof , depend on the same resources , and can not but have an effect on one another ; yet the planning of the great house does all it can to obliterate these connections . |
| 25 | ‘ 2 Hell With Common Sense ’ does just what its title urges and comes up with a startling , confident clutch of songs . |
| 26 | ‘ It does just what you ask of it . |
| 27 | Ah well actually he 's provided for because there is a sum of money left in trust for him so it does just my daughter I wanted |
| 28 | Most of the time , the penis does exactly what mine is doing now — precisely nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ Lily always does exactly what I want . ’ |
| 30 | The Gozinto chart does exactly what its name implies . |