Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] does [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retaining fertile eggs within her body long enough for them to hatch there does not require major anatomical or physiological changes , so it is not surprising that all the major groups of land-living animals contain species that produce live babies . |
| 2 | ‘ Just because you say so does n't make it so , however , ’ Candy returned complacently . |
| 3 | She is acutely disappointed by the government 's lack of investment in the clothing industry in this country , and highly critical of the industry itself , which she says just does n't realise the potential of its designers . |
| 4 | If the only reading you ever do is the occasional novel or glossy magazine , then the speed at which you read Probably does not matter very much to you . |
| 5 | Just because you live alone does not mean that you should not bother . |
| 6 | Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason . ’ |
| 7 | The memory of him lying there does n't worry me , nor the memory of the blood trickling out of his body . |
| 8 | His first surviving letter , written to his mother in February 1785 , seems to suggest that he had visited Ottery in the recent past ; but better evidence that he returned there does not survive until 1789 , seven years after his arrival in London . |
| 9 | He was subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter , although his lawyer was quick to point out that ‘ Whatever happened certainly does n't indicate that Dr Love is guilty of anything . ’ |