Example sentences of "what [pers pn] does [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she does regret , though , is the comparative lack of guitar repertoire from her favourite Romantic period ( she cites Rachmaninov as a special hero ) . |
| 2 | I gather she either does n't know very much about Uncle Adam or does n't care very much about what she does know . ’ |
| 3 | And perhaps what she does know wo n't help me , anyway . |
| 4 | sounds all like bloody what she does say . |
| 5 | said they 'd been recording things for her wanting to see what she does see when she 's old . |
| 6 | ‘ What he does do really well is to suddenly come out with something brilliantly surreal . |
| 7 | What he does do , though , is present these foes as mysterious and indefinably threatening in a haunting manner : ‘ For though they bodies seeme , yet substance from them fades ’ ( II , IX , 15 ) . |
| 8 | Antony says hypocritically that he does n't want to cause a riot , which is just what he does do , and he leaves the plebeians in a destructive state of min , who are out to kill and destroy everything . |
| 9 | But what he does mean by it can not be identified , at least in any simple way , with the actual beliefs or attitudes which caused it . |
| 10 | What he does recall is the years he spent as a violent drunk , his frequent periods in Saughton prison and life in hostels for the single homeless . |
| 11 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |
| 12 | But what he does get is the satisfaction of working alongside regular officers in the knowledge that his contribution is a genuine benefit to the work being done in Darlington . |
| 13 | What he does describe well are the two faces of excellence as they have characterised JPL . |
| 14 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 15 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 16 | So , to get the comparisons over with , and leaving musical considerations aside , what he does have in common with Rattle is charm . |
| 17 | What he does seem to mind — and what even the most arbitrary-seeming , the most ludic , of his ironic and erotic diversions and excursions show that he minds — is the regime that came to power in his native country after the revolution of 1948 . |
| 18 | What he does know is that at least some of the whales seem to have started making Puget Sound their regular summer feeding ground . |
| 19 | I tell you what he does need , see a doctor |
| 20 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |
| 21 | But what it does show was that , in 1979 , small savers were treated the same as larger savers . |
| 22 | I was majorly unpleased as you can imagine at the time but I think what it does show is that the Indians have got a terrific sense of humour . |
| 23 | But seriously I 'm against this budget because of what is , what it does n't contain rather than what it does contain . |
| 24 | What it does demand is a policy based on staffroom agreement which can be accepted by teachers and parents as being appropriate to meeting the needs of the children which the school is there to serve . |
| 25 | Such a story could be viewed cynically as making a virtue out of necessity and that is indeed what it does do . |
| 26 | As I said , whether mental confusion equals dementia , what exact degree of dependency what degree of confusion , what degree of dementia , this does n't tell you but what it does do is help to give us a picture of what is happening , not just in the local authority sector which we 've heard from , not just in the voluntary sector , which we 've heard from , but , if this is to be believed , by an even greater rate of increase in the private sector . |
| 27 | What it does do is to combine the particular letters and clauses which are relevant on a specific occasion with the details of the applicant in such a way as to produce the final document . |
| 28 | What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative , and a very readable one . |
| 29 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 30 | What it does offer , however , is the possibility of digitising the third dimension with a signal passing through the object being digitised to give a measure of its thickness . |