Example sentences of "[pers pn] not [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you not mention this before ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Did you or did you not read this book to the reception class ? ’ yelled Ali . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you not discuss this difference between you when you agreed to marry ? ’ |
| 4 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 5 | Sa this wo this kid went out having this bloody bath said can we not do this every day ? |
| 6 | If nature has discovered the ‘ best way ’ of producing a sequence of changes that will result in an adult member of Homo sapiens , might it not recapitulate this sequence in the womb ? |
| 7 | Why did he not do this instead ? |
| 8 | Exactly , and let us not forget this either . |