Example sentences of "not [pers pn] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Can not you have the same faith , Wilson ? |
2 | ‘ Why do n't I give the Russian collection to the Munich Museum of Fine Arts in Adolph 's memory ? |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Why ca n't I have the next stage ? |
5 | Why could n't she let the sleeping lion lie ? |
6 | Then wo n't she have the other girl |
7 | ‘ Do n't you taunt the poor man , Agnes , ’ Annette said severely . |
8 | what Bonnie was saying was erm do n't you mean the common area bit , you know , the bit at the back ? |
9 | Why do n't you switch the darn thing off and listen to me ! ’ |
10 | ‘ Why do n't you leave the poor boy alone . |
11 | Did n't you have the same figure after you had a boys then Sylv , er Mary ? |
12 | Do n't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home . |
13 | It 's , why do n't you invite the whole school , what the heck ! |
14 | ‘ And do n't you come the old biddy with me ! |
15 | Do n't you know the first thing about seduction ? ’ |
16 | " But do n't you like the latest scenario ? " |
17 | No it does n't you run the top tap now in the kitchen , turn it off that will ignite and come on go and try it . |
18 | Did n't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position ? |
19 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |
20 | He thought that if you could orient molecules in yarn or film — just as Wallace Carothers did when he invented nylon in the same company in the 1930s — why could n't you apply the same technique to plastic bottles to make them stronger ? |
21 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
22 | ‘ Come on darling , ca n't you see the funny side ? |
23 | ‘ But why do n't you use the goddam bog ? ’ someone says . |
24 | ‘ Keep still , ’ he commanded , and then , ‘ Tell me , why did n't you use the conventional exit ? ’ |
25 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
26 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
27 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Why do n't we abandon the original plan and go straight to Debenham and Freebody , as we 're so close . |
30 | But why did n't we get the best housing ? |