Example sentences of "[verb] n't [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So why has n't cricket — our glorious national pastime — managed to give birth to a popular cricket fanzine ?
2 Why has n't evolution produced organisms that practically last for selecting for is reproductive success .
3 ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’
4 Their ‘ Why has n't life improved then ’ sense of hopelessness points to Morrissey 's overbearing terror , and , for him , it never can .
5 That 's for a married couple , but er anybody who has n't income , single person , children !
6 Has n't Mam been on about it every day this week ? ’
7 If so , why has n't Tweed been arrested ? ’
8 So but erm Jimmy has n't sort of put it to her yet .
9 Yeah , I bet he has n't sort of tried to talk has he ? .
10 No , she has n't age , because she thinks she 's she 's been a big girl , and she 's now a little girl .
11 bangs him upstairs so that his boots bang against the stairs at every step , he has n't time to put his feet down !
12 ‘ It usually means a court-martial or a decoration the governor has n't time for anything else .
13 So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . "
14 Now a court has imposed a cock-a-doodle-do n't curfew on Horace to stop the dawn din in the village of Brook , Hants .
15 ‘ The attitude should be : ‘ If you ca n't win do n't play ’ .
16 If you make a mistake with Word , right , then you can always undo it , right , if you ever make a mistake do n't panic cos you can always undo it but you only get the one chance if you go on working then you ca n't undo it .
17 You mentioned you cycle anyway to keep fit , fit do you — do you , you do n't cycle over this sort of terrain do you ?
18 you know , we would li I do n't mind people being in it , but I 'd rather , you know , can you imagine that er the Greek priest we had in the very first print
19 Just send one of them in here and then I 'll see if I can er I do n't mind really I 'll see if I can which one would like me to chat up for you I suppose really that 's basically it .
20 I do n't Albert do n't mind going for her cigs , but it 's just that we do n't get up early in the morning , you know , and if me mum 's ringing at eight o'clock in the morning , 'cos she got no cigs .
21 No you 're not naughty do n't you do n't mind anyway .
22 I mean really they should they do n't mind
23 We would not object to the guide my Lord but what we would object to do n't object to the guide my Lord but what we do object to is is what this er solicitor would have done in relation to it
24 . My son used to Do n't shout at them mother , he said .
25 Yeah but Russia did n't case Russia intervened as a pro-liberal thing .
26 I did n't sir no erm , Detective Sergeant was the officer dealing with this erm Lawrence .
27 I did n't sir , no .
28 I did n't sir no .
29 and did n't mum have a new cooker ?
30 My dad answered the phone , and I said , erm , you know , hello , is everything alright , blah , blah , blah , and I said , dad , why did n't mum phone me last night , and he said , probably because she ca n't speak .
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