Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 2 | Has not my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) made a powerful case for the use of fingerprints under clause 2 ? |
| 3 | That scene , as Golding has often told , was the first he conceived of , and he invented the rest of the book with the conclusion already in mind ; and it tells of a frightened boy ‘ tensed for more terrors ’ who staggers to his feet to find not his tormentors but an officer in a white-topped cap : |
| 4 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The agent hass stopped us , but it iss not his fault , really ; it iss the Earl 's , ’ explained Jill , careful to be fair , ‘ though it iss really the people who leave the litter who are to blame , not even the Earl . |
| 6 | ‘ Touch not my son , Quigley , ’ said the old man , ‘ Leave him be ! ’ |
| 7 | " Has n't her husband left her ? " |
| 8 | Who has n't her sister ? |
| 9 | And has n't his constant interference in the lives of his children probably been as damaging to their personal relationships as any of the recent scandals ? |
| 10 | Has n't his search for Maastricht supporters resembled Indiana 's quest for the Grail ? |
| 11 | And with close season signing from Limerick , Barry Ryan , also sidelined with a hamstring injury , Derry boss Roy Coyle has n't his sorrows to seek at the moment . |
| 12 | ‘ Has n't my friend collected her gear yet ? ’ she queried . |
| 13 | Has n't your heater come on ? ’ |
| 14 | Has n't your wife got a drink ? |
| 15 | ‘ Has n't your Mr Potter got a young lady ? ’ persisted Lily . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : I have no reason to be ashamed of that duel you refer to since it was to save a friend , but suffer not your tongue to take too great a liberty with my Pamela . |
| 17 | Lose not your heart to the prince , child — he will wreak havoc with many a feminine heart , I doubt not , ere he reaches his majority . |
| 18 | Fear not my lips are sealed . |
| 19 | Her licentiousness was entirely passive , reflecting not her own desires but those of the man she was with . |
| 20 | Saying , Lay not thy hand upon the lad , |
| 21 | the Trinidadian , given not our , went on to score 64 |
| 22 | His text was Psalm 119 , verse 19- ‘ I am a stranger on the earth , hide not Thy commandments from me ’ . |
| 23 | Let not our union discriminate against the activists like the bosses do . |
| 24 | The coffin reached the catafalque as the minister finished his intonation : ‘ Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God believe also in me . |
| 25 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 26 | I accept , however , that trade unions see their function to negotiate and they ( although I suspect not their members ) would fight to prevent this function being supplanted and the strike weapon abolished . |
| 27 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ ’ he said , imitating not her voice but its angry cadence . |
| 28 | I did tell Mrs. Jervis for my heart was almost broken , but I opened not my mouth to any other . |
| 29 | On the col itself , there is a small modern chapel and a memorial stone , which faces back down into Spain , Roland having heroically asked that he should be buried facing not his homeland but the enemy . |
| 30 | I like not your being in the Tower — it troubles me more than I could say ! ’ |