Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 3 | bottle of wine and I drunk it you see , watching the match , and Jim done the dinner I said fuck it I 'm having my dinner in here cos , did n't it go into extra time ? |
| 4 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 5 | Why did n't it fail ? |
| 6 | I mean I was the on I was the only black guy in the regiment erm for a very long time and erm you know it did n't it does n't matter what colour you are erm apart from my case , there was if you was erm if you were slow on your runs or you was n't good at at cleaning your kit you would get bullied . |
| 7 | Why did n't it flash then ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't it strike you as a strange technique ? ’ |
| 9 | Did n't it make you angry ? |
| 10 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
| 11 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |
| 12 | Did n't it move ! |
| 13 | His mother had read classics at Oxford and did n't it show . |
| 14 | And I felt and I said I did not kill her and I was the murderer and Shameer said check hit me but she did n't it felt like a hit and you do n't accidentally do that do you ? |
| 15 | Why did n't it stop ? |
| 16 | Or did n't it matter ? |
| 17 | Did n't it matter to him that she was only after his money , that she was far from being the warm , motherly soul that she seemed ? |
| 18 | Did n't it smell odd ? |
| 19 | So they park that up on the pavement outside our wall did n't come to our gate but , and then did n't it obstruct Alan 's because they had it on the pavement , so anybody going down the pavement |
| 20 | Erm another s source of energy we 've been considering is th is , is a tidal barrage across the Severn and erm you probably recognize this as a , as a map of the Severn Estuary er er and if you did n't it says the Severn Estuary in big letters er across the er the bottom |
| 21 | Did n't it put the viewpoint of these people towards the Irish ? |
| 22 | Took him ages did n't it to get his flat and it 's not even where he wants to go . |
| 23 | ‘ Did n't it read my note ? ’ wondered Grimma aloud . |
| 24 | The wardrobe when it landed did n't it hit a corner , but it did n't just crumple up , it exploded . |
| 25 | ‘ Did n't it worry you ? ’ |
| 26 | Whe when you were did n't it happen Mrs that when you were playing in the street one day , you were knocked over by a tram ? |
| 27 | So ours must have cost , I 'm sure that would cost them a lot more than thirty pounds cos it did n't it did n't say a wrought iron wheelbarrow or anything , it just said a wheelbarrow |
| 28 | Did n't it surprise you that you could afford such a prime location ? ’ |
| 29 | I did n't it has to be said win the pools last year as I always put Leeds for a win and Scum for a loss . |
| 30 | Did n't the operation — did n't it work ? " |