Example sentences of "she [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not treated her subordinates with vindictiveness and meanness , Elena 's desire to cut a figure as ‘ a world-ranking scientist ’ would have a comical charm . |
| 2 | How an argument began , then a fight , how Leonard would have been killed had she not hit Otto over the head . |
| 3 | Why had she not received them earlier ? |
| 4 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 5 | Why had she not consulted them ? |
| 6 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 7 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 8 | Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ? |
| 9 | Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ? |
| 10 | Some discernment she had , however , for had she not made most complimentary remarks about his filets de sole Murat ? |
| 11 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 12 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 13 | How could she and how could she not give it up ? |
| 14 | And anyhow , Cara would probably not have lasted more than two minutes in her job in the journalistic field had she not grown a few hard edges . |
| 15 | Would she not want to know the joy she had experienced in Tyler 's arms ? |
| 16 | How could she not want that ? |
| 17 | Next B states , in London English , her attitude to all such propositions : " I do n't wan na go outside for fresh air , right " — and now switches to Creole to echo her own words , but more emphatically : not only would she not want to go , she will not : " I 'm not going outside ( ever ) for any fresh air " . |
| 18 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 19 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 20 | And had she not felt elated when he praised her in that soft , beguiling voice ? |
| 21 | Has she not throbbed at the memory of their dances hand in hand ? |
| 22 | Why had she not realised earlier ? |
| 23 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 24 | Who might she not meet ? |
| 25 | Had she not heard Sarah 's cry of outrage the moment before she opened the carriage door and caught John in that position ? |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , never with any heart to deprive you , ’ protested Herluin , ‘ but in compassion for a monastic house brought to ruin might she not feel bound to exert herself to deliver ? |
| 27 | Could she not could she not lock them up right |
| 28 | Well if , if you look at erm a female worker , er as opposed to a male worker and you look at the o oppression that she suffers , does she not suffer both the oppression of being working and the oppression of being a woman ? |
| 29 | Did she not go then ? |
| 30 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |