Example sentences of "does [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We said that this in no way lessens the grief , but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event . |
| 2 | Shareholders are requested to complete and return the proxy card , but this does not preclude them coming to the meeting and voting in person . |
| 3 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 4 | Gedge is seasoned in receiving criticism and does not let it disturb him , but likewise , he does not pretend it has no effect . |
| 5 | There is nothing wrong with being interested in , say , television but that does not make them research social scientists . |
| 6 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 7 | But this does not make her feel less irritated . |
| 8 | Knowing about methods of preventing pregnancy does not make you go to the doctor or the clinic and ask for them . |
| 9 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 10 | It is not right to share feelings in a sentence such as ‘ You make me feel … ’ because in actuality the other person does not make us feel this way . |
| 11 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 12 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 13 | Thinking that something will happen does not make it happen . |
| 14 | I agree with Mr. Sedley , for Messrs. Doody and Pierson , that the decision of this court in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 does not bind us to conclude that the Secretary of State is not obliged to give reasons in this respect . |
| 15 | It might not be just to press philosophical objections , since it is obvious that a rhetorical question does not commit him to ignore even the most imminent of coming events . |
| 16 | At present what we need to note is the recognition of the validity of a description in its own terms does not commit us to acknowledge its pedagogic relevance in principle . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe she does not want him to think that she is surrendering herself too easily , ’ he suggested . |
| 18 | But he denied the organisation was being heavy-handed in making an example of the teenagers , saying he had to prove a point , although the Alliance does not want them imprisoned . |
| 19 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 20 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 21 | But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation . |
| 22 | Azerbaijan does not want it to happen again . |
| 23 | Employees with wives who are actively pursuing their own careers are also likely to encounter problems overseas , especially if the wife is forced to give up her job because of her husband 's transfer and her role abroad does not enable her to work or to develop other satisfactory activities . |
| 24 | Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely . |
| 25 | It does not enable us to say anything directly about the nature of consciousness . |
| 26 | This definition , however , does not enable us to say which functions are public functions , but only to give a reason why certain functions are classified as public . |
| 27 | The model does not enable us to examine the effects of changes in aggregate demand on both output and prices . |
| 28 | However , this is insufficient because by itself it does not enable us to understand the diverse experience of women of different ethnicities . |
| 29 | It does not enable us to identify the faulty premise . |
| 30 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |