Example sentences of "[adv] do we not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 2 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 3 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 4 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 5 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |