Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] you [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should n't you warn her first ? |
| 2 | ‘ Should n't you have your own office ? ’ |
| 3 | And why should n't you have your little bit of fun ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well … could n't you run them both together ? ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah , I know , well my daughter in law , was practically down on the phone kissing me last year when I said look Myrie , would n't you like it this year if I did n't come to you , you know , she 's done Christmas 's for me , year in year out |
| 6 | ‘ Ca n't you make it earlier ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't you offer it some food , and take it away safely somewhere before it bites somebody ? ’ |
| 8 | Ca n't you tell me that , Henry ? |
| 9 | Ca n't you give me another shot ? ’ |
| 10 | Ca n't you give me any time to myself ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't you grow your own ? ’ asked Garvin . |
| 12 | Then they 'd come bleating to my father and their husbands and complain that Addy was autocratic and impossible , and the men would say , " Why ca n't you leave her alone ? " |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't you leave me alone ? ’ he said , brushing her hand off his shoulder . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't you leave me alone for one stupid minute ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , ca n't you leave me alone ? |
| 16 | Ca n't you leave it alone ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 18 | Ca n't you see what that means ? |
| 19 | Silas — darling — ca n't you see what this means to us ? ’ |
| 20 | Ca n't you get them cleaner ? |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't you get anyone nearer ? |
| 22 | Ca n't you mind your own business ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't you play something cheerful ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , Leonard , ’ cried his aunt , ‘ ca n't you use your wonderful powers to change this terrible animal into something small and gentle , like a rabbit ? ’ |
| 25 | Why ca n't you put it right immediately so as not to stop something that is going well ? |
| 26 | Wo n't you get me any on Monday ? |
| 27 | And she said that she keeps her dog indoors now because she wo n't You know their big alsatian ? |
| 28 | Chapel Anniversary was always a treat and one year I sang a song , ‘ Wo n't You Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |