Example sentences of "she does [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 2 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 3 | She does not need nurses in uniform , she almost shouts : just because she is disabled , it does not mean she is medically ill . |
| 4 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 5 | He said : ‘ If … the court 's inclination at the end of the day is to interfere with the £600,000 award of damages , then she , for her part — although she does not fear a retrial and again does not relish it - would be willing to accept whatever your lordships should decide is the right figure . ’ |
| 6 | The difficulty is magnified when the sovereign is conceived as addressing ‘ the Commonwealth ’ comprising some countries which she rules on the advice of the respective ministers and other countries over which she does not reign at all . |
| 7 | But she does not share the criminality of the real-life Frith who was apparently arrested several times , and variously recorded as being a bawd , thief , receiver , gang-leader , and whore ; the character Moll Cutpurse definitely is not these things , and in the play-world is only falsely accused of being so . |
| 8 | At least if a woman goes out to work she can escape that — her mind is occupied , she does not long so much for her home in Pakistan . |
| 9 | She does not know . |
| 10 | Perelandra is the most ambitious of the outer-space stories , and the one with the most single-minded theological aim : nothing less than an imagined temptation-scene between Satan and Eve in which she does not succumb . |
| 11 | Diana was brought up with it , just as Charles was , and is a fair shot herself , although she does not shoot any more . |
| 12 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 13 | She does not know much about world politics ; she undertakes her ‘ strange Odyssean intellectual and political adventure into the soul and psyche of this unknown leader ’ in , she says , ‘ a systematic journalistic manner ’ . |
| 14 | When she encounters a mess , like the ridiculous raid on the Moncada barracks that made Mr Castro 's revolutionary reputation , she does not try to impose sense where there was none . |
| 15 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |
| 16 | At least she does not recognize who she is talking to , for God is in strange disguise . |
| 17 | The cases decide that this exception extends to touching a person in order to attract attention , although there can be no exception when the person touched has made it clear that he or she does not wish to be touched again . |
| 18 | She does not realise . |
| 19 | She does not take it in — you will understand this , with your experience . ’ |
| 20 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 21 | I can not go to her , she does not realise , she can never understand . |
| 22 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 23 | She does not feel either , it would seem . |
| 24 | For instance , everyone makes such a fuss of Elizabeth Taylor when she loses weight , pampering her and commenting on how good she looks , but when she regains it , as she always does , we are told how ugly and inflated she is , and even she does not escape comparison — with Joan Collins . |
| 25 | The truth is , she does not seem to wish to see me and will think of every excuse to keep me out of her presence . |
| 26 | But with the confidence of youth she does not want to wait beyond Barcelona for her first Games medal . |
| 27 | Mrs Leinen , who is staying with her mother Mrs Ann Monohan , in Stratton , Swindon , Wilts , says she does not have the money to fight the custody battle in American courts . |
| 28 | ‘ Present society executes her quietly if she does not remain desirable , ’ she writes . |
| 29 | Her rapid rise to the top is well deserved and she does not suffer from having political labels stuck on her . |
| 30 | The most irritating thing about Rytasha — and there were many — was that , though she does not speak their language , she presumes to teach them a spurious form of their own religion . |