Example sentences of "[pers pn] certainly [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea , she certainly keeps much . |
| 2 | She certainly does n't want to marry me . |
| 3 | No-one is strongly opposed to the match , and she certainly does not have to defer to anyone 's opinion . |
| 4 | She certainly does n't any kind of handicap or a stigma . |
| 5 | she certainly spends the money , but erm but the , the |
| 6 | ‘ She certainly knows how to spend his money ! |
| 7 | She certainly knows the score . |
| 8 | She certainly seems to have done a lot more than your lot . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She certainly seems to be enjoying life now , ’ said Greg — and then , realizing this was open to misunderstanding , he added : ‘ I do n't mean now that Hilda is dead , of course — I just mean she 's revelling in this revival of interest in Walter Machin . ’ |
| 10 | In this remark , perhaps the earliest preserved utterance of an English housewife , she certainly seems to have assumed that such food would be a normal part of the family diet . |
| 11 | Chloe Joe has obviously had some terrifying experiences , and she certainly needs to be ‘ de-sensitised ’ to every sort of household noise , family and friends . |
| 12 | She certainly has her fans — she drew 2,181 votes in the poll to win the award 's first prize £500 ( going into NRC funds ) . |
| 13 | Mrs Langley rose from a chair by the fire and Alexandra was aware of her daughters and someone else on a sofa in the great square bay window ; and even as Mrs Langley was greeting her she could hear Rose say clearly , ‘ Well , whatever else she has n't got , she certainly has elegant clothes , ’ and Alexandra , stung out of all terror quite suddenly , said crisply , ‘ I will tell my aunt how much you admire her taste . |
| 14 | I doubt she has the technical skill to keep me static for very long , but she certainly has acquired just enough understanding of particle physics and the footnotes to the hard-to-find tenth-century Babylonian edition of The Sword of Moses to slow me down just long enough to cramp my style . |
| 15 | She certainly has a mind of her own . ’ |
| 16 | She certainly has n't met anyone like Zeinab . ’ |
| 17 | She certainly has the right bloke to do it . |
| 18 | She certainly leads from the front . |
| 19 | She certainly looks a more attractive three-year-old prospect than Digression , who won the big juvenile colts ' event , the Royal Lodge Stakes . |
| 20 | ‘ But she certainly looks it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She certainly looks her age , does n't she ? ’ |
| 22 | She certainly looks well . |
| 23 | No , she does n't look like a Penguin , but she certainly smells like one ! |
| 24 | Despite her bleak background and threadbare , Dickensian sartorial habits , she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility . |
| 25 | As Carolyn observes : ‘ I 'm not a terribly spiritual person but I do believe that she was meant to do what she is doing and she certainly believes that . |
| 26 | It certainly freshens up the dusty atmosphere , and one can almost see the grass and leaves on the trees beginning to sprout . |
| 27 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 28 | It certainly merits further examination . |
| 29 | After all , chess is unrelated to real life , but it certainly tests intelligence and ability . |
| 30 | Popularity is n't a pre-requisite to good teaching though it certainly helps ; at least advice on projecting a more positive image should be given . |