Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar .
2 This means that they must on no account fail us , just as , to take a different level , the woman whose beauty we find captivating must be seen to maintain her attractions : so much so that we ‘ will ’ her to display a beauty that she does not always possess , or perhaps has never possessed .
3 It was n't her reaction that I was wary of , it 's just that she does n't even know how she made her children so how was she going to understand what I was trying to tell her !
4 I 've , I 've never ever known him to iron anything ever since I 've been you know , little , I 've never seen him iron anything but me mum was in fits because he 'd even ironed the socks so she said she did n't have the heart to tell him that she does n't usually bother with the ruddy socks , but er the thought was there was n't it ?
5 It 's the sort of question that a man and a woman might very well give different answers to , but it seems to me that there are different sorts of things that erm some women tend to notice , different sorts of ideas that tend to assume prominence in the imaginations of some women , and erm to that extent I think that George Eliot 's sympathy for other people , including people that she does n't actually agree with , is perhaps a characteristic that one might tend to find more in a women novelist than in a male novelist , although I 'm not sure that one can be absolutely dogmatic and say that one would never find a male novelist who could write the way that George Eliot does .
6 That 's why she is a bit nervous ; she would like to be alone with him , without Paul , and she does n't quite know how to arrange it .
7 This is Ginny , and she does n't really like college .
8 It will be better , perhaps , if she does not wholly know that the will is in question . ’
9 You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’
10 ‘ Well , yes , but she does n't always believe me . ’
11 Susan says she does it , but she does n't really do it !
12 But she does n't really look as though she 's broken loose .
13 She says it 's because the water is pure from the mountain but she does n't really believe it 's just that .
14 The community psychiatric nurse comes occasionally — I never know when — and she sympathizes ; nice girl but she does n't actually do anything useful .
15 Elizabeth does not love me , but she does not always hate me , and when she brushes my hair perhaps she means to be kind .
16 The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do .
17 I do n't respect O'Connor because she suggests that decent working people just give up everything , and because she does n't genuinely make the best of the power she HAS got .
18 She enjoys trying out new ways of doing things , though she does n't necessarily devise them herself .
19 As long as she does n't bloody ring us to say oh Susan 's just rung .
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