Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [vb infin] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 2 | Why ca n't I have the next stage ? |
| 3 | Do n't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home . |
| 4 | Do n't you know the first thing about seduction ? ’ |
| 5 | Did n't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position ? |
| 6 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 7 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 8 | Why ca n't they go the last mile and ban him from bowling against England batsman who clearly would find reading Sanskrit easier than spotting than ‘ Hollywood 's ’ wrong ‘ un . |