Example sentences of "[pers pn] does [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does want Billy 's name up that for sure cos it 's all over |
| 2 | Oh Pat phoned , she does want Jenny to baby-sit . |
| 3 | ‘ She does hatchet jobs , not reviews . ’ |
| 4 | But I do kno , I know another girl , I do n't know her well , but she does do core lectures . |
| 5 | You see , we 've never been very happy with the people and she , she does do things if you ask her , I suppose the thing is that I should come down more often and say . |
| 6 | Marjorie said , ‘ But surely , once your wife started to make money — she does make money , does n't she ? — surely your mother could n't complain about her being helpless any more ? ’ |
| 7 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 8 | Mrs Fu does not complain about their earnings , but she does resent government levies . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you were against it , and right to be probably , but it does seem the only practical way out of the difficulty — she does adore Tom , you know , and she 's dreadfully lonely … . ’ |
| 10 | Well , she does buy vegetables , but she 'd rather buy frozen veg , 'cos it 's just easy for her , dead easy for her . |
| 11 | Yeah , she , she does write books like , things like this for the |
| 12 | ‘ No , I did n't , ’ said Elizabeth emerging from the kitchen , ‘ but she does frighten people sometimes , without meaning to . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The chemotherapy has affected her hair — it 's very thin — but she does have hair , blonde hair . ’ |
| 14 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 15 | Today , at 43 , she is no longer addicted to it — but she does have Aids . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course she does have staff to hand around the nosh , ’ Ken told her . |
| 17 | They cut oh they cut sellotape , and they does cut string . |
| 18 | While chairman and chief executive , Peter Bonfield , said he is still ‘ not seeing the wide green shoots ’ of recovery , he does expect ICL to stay in the black during the coming year . |
| 19 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 20 | He does not mention this book , but he does quote Lewis to the effect that ‘ nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric , in its modern form , would have been meaningless . ’ |
| 21 | Ian McKellen is better suited to small spaces than large ones , because a lot of what he does involves gesture , expression and nuance of voice . |
| 22 | And I did not ‘ warn ’ for the simple reason that I radically differed and differ from comrade Preobrazhensky in my estimation of his article : he does lay claim to the above mentioned analysis , but in my opinion there is absolutely n o analysis itself . |
| 23 | But his beat is often sluggish and lifeless , and when he does move things along he is apt to produce a coarse effect with his punched-out accents ( listen for example to ‘ Cease to beauty ’ or ‘ The flocks shall leave the mountains ’ ) or his aggressively pushy rhythms ( as in ‘ Happy we ’ or ‘ Love sounds th ’ alarm ’ ) . |
| 24 | loads of times , he does moan mumma now he does that quite a lot |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps he does love Sarah ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He does love acronyms , does n't he , ’ Philip murmurs . |
| 27 | Now he does make mistakes so that 's not a |
| 28 | Furthermore when he does give way and claim it for his own , he loses it almost immediately to Gollum , who bites off Ring and finger with it . |
| 29 | my father , well he does speak Welsh and my mother could understand it |
| 30 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |