Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] does [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps it does n't understand English , ’ thought Alice . |
| 2 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 3 | So it does n't make sense , and obviously it is n't er , written joint life , last claim . |
| 4 | Just it does n't make sense and it leaves me nowhere . |
| 5 | Also it does not allow cluster fragments . |
| 6 | For instance , everyone makes such a fuss of Elizabeth Taylor when she loses weight , pampering her and commenting on how good she looks , but when she regains it , as she always does , we are told how ugly and inflated she is , and even she does not escape comparison — with Joan Collins . |
| 7 | Well it does n't like vinyl paper for some reason . |
| 8 | Their call is like the peewit , but here it does n't sound melancholy like those peewits over Scotland 's moors and ruined crofts . |
| 9 | cos er , we do n't ours does n't touch town does it Gordon , our erm |
| 10 | But then she does n't eat dinner , you know , the one |
| 11 | But er , if I also put something of row fifteen thirty seven , then it does n't use memory for all those rows between there and there . |
| 12 | So , unless you are very ecology conscious , or the price differential increases dramatically or 2 star becomes unavailable , then it does not make sense to convert a 2.25 to run on lead free . |
| 13 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 14 | Now I ca n't see why it does n't make sense , but if Jim came to me and said , look Hugh , that 's bloody silly . |