Example sentences of "[noun] does n't [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them .
2 Still thinking that my drink was spiked in Kansas does n't make me very trusting .
3 Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power .
4 She keeps saying she 's glad Dennis does n't know about us and she hopes he never finds out .
5 " Bert does n't know either .
6 The cut does n't have to be straight — you can do it freehand , as long as it remains within the area to be covered by the border .
7 Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’
8 Cristophe does n't want to talk about it .
9 Mind the carrots does n't drop in .
10 If Jeff does n't get those soldered allows you to get
11 Well , regarding this business of Buffy and the apple , you know — the pig does n't come into it until the end .
12 Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county .
13 If the Five Nations does n't get in the way , the weather invariably does .
14 Now as the United Nations does n't have enough on its plate dealing with the problems on earth and obviously they 're er they 're there at the forefront of everything that happens .
15 G. does n't do anything , the purpose of the visit being to see what conditions are like .
16 G. does n't know where it 's coming from , but waves a hand in the direction of the houses , suggesting a pipe may have been wrongly connected , or a sewer has broken .
17 Oh you 've done that red ones , yellow ones , where 's your yellow ones Your key does n't match your chart .
18 Ellen does n't seem to be on yellow , is she ?
19 He does n't realise that Gorbachev does n't feel that way any more , and neither does the vast majority of Spaniards . ’
20 I can assure you that my concern for Svend is as great as yours for Suzie , and I 'm not going to allow you to wriggle out of your commitments because , rightly or wrongly , your lover does n't trust you out of his sight . ’
21 ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’
22 Improv does n't have columns called A , B , C and rows called 1,2,3 .
23 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
24 As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) .
25 My shorthand does n't have the right symbols somehow .
26 I told you before that thinking does n't seem to be your strong point .
27 John McLaughlin often felt that guitar controllers lacked spontaneous reaction to attack , something that Lampi does n't have to worry about ( though McLaughlin 's new Photon system seems to work quite well over a range of sounds ) .
28 After all , becoming a provisional member of Equity does n't give them work , it merely gives them the opportunity to work in the career for which they have trained .
29 Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase .
30 But Rebecca does n't have that aptitude ; she gets herself in a state about any new technology .
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