Example sentences of "[verb] not [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has not he realised that the CAP is the only agricultural support system under which consumers pay a subsidy to farmers and end up paying more for their food than if they had not paid the subsidy in the first place ? |
| 2 | Has not he forgotten to mention that between 1979 and 1981 investment fell sharply and that it was lower in the third quarter of 1991 than in any other quarter — 12 per cent . |
| 3 | Well I hope not I mean no he wo n't be able to drive |
| 4 | I hope not I see if they want any do you want , do , do you want any crisps ? |
| 5 | Yeah they 're all nice nice girls you know this is like the other week we was here playing the other team and one of the other team was swearing you know , and particularly you know the girls in , might have not they have the they used to play for Black Bear and you know the that lady that 's up there , she still swears and we stopped her from here used to f this , f that and f the other , we did , we stopped her said if you ca n't find a better word than that to use I should n't bother , you know As you know Shirl do n't like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I am honoured by the prince 's interest — but I doubt not it stems from mere curiosity as to my connection with her for whom he has a brotherly fondness . ’ |
| 7 | I doubt not it holds many happy memories for you . |
| 8 | He was many years her senior , as you will be aware — I doubt not you know the rest . ’ |
| 9 | We did not we think I think we thought it would be seen merely as a gesture . |
| 10 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
| 11 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 12 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 13 | Why did not I think of it before ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did not you say so then ! ’ |
| 15 | Did not you hear Miss Rhymer say that it was poems , my dear ? ’ |
| 16 | With Thursday only a day or so hence , why did not he inform us there and then that he would be unable to convey our message to the queen our mother ? |
| 17 | On the other hand , it is by no means clear that all ‘ corporatist arrangements ’ involve the exercise of public functions by non-governmental bodies , and to the extent that they do not they remain beyond the scope of public law . |
| 18 | Why do not we set an example in Scotland , as we did for the poll tax ? |
| 19 | Do not we owe it to all our children , right across the country and irrespective of their primary schools , to identify their needs , strengths and weaknesses at an early age ? |
| 20 | ( Do not we see this in Lewis 's The Lion , the Witch , and the Wardrobe ? |
| 21 | The N Y C C in their assessment do not we believe have taken into account the severe environmental damage which any western relief road would impose on the landscape . |
| 22 | Do not you mean the lady Anne , little brother ? ’ |
| 23 | Do not I fill heaven and earth ? ’ |
| 24 | Do not I fill heaven and earth , if heaven and earth are words on my page ? |
| 25 | And sleep the whole night through he might have , had not he woken suddenly , for no apparent reason , into crisis . |
| 26 | Does not he think it right that all such pensioners should receive compensation when they have lost so much pension due to his complacency and reprehensible laxity ? |
| 27 | Does not he think that we are a bad example to tell people to act through the United Nations when we as a Government have failed to do so ? |
| 28 | Does not he feel ashamed of that ? |
| 29 | Does not he feel that unwise comments such as those that he made do not help an already difficult situation ? |
| 30 | Why does not he tell Russia and the other former Soviet Union countries that we want them to get rid of nuclear weapons ? |