Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [not/n't] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm my own woman , Lucenzo , so do n't you or Corosini ever forget that . ’ |
| 2 | They burnt it down did n't they and from the this is from Virgil 's Aeneid |
| 3 | Yeah he is oh heck I 've got to get the news in have n't I that worries me . |
| 4 | one hand goes one way , one hand goes the other , break it open , put the cardboard away and you need to be ready to try before you pull the next bit off do n't you because as soon as you 've opened that it 's not sterilized any more , so you open that up and you find , unwrap it |
| 5 | You woke up did n't you and came into mummy and daddy 's bed . |
| 6 | He does get fed up does n't he when he he ca n't |
| 7 | ‘ Why not ? ’ said Mr. Jenkins , wide awake with the cheek of it and now taking not one but two pieces of her best fruitcake . |
| 8 | Me erm me Mum and Dad split up just before did n't they and could n't afford it . |
| 9 | But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit . |
| 10 | The drought yeah , yeah just now the drought seems to be much more widespread now does n't it and er into South Africa |
| 11 | So we 've had a look at some of the numbers now have n't we and some of the things you can do with them . |
| 12 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 13 | Well , well you came here did n't you when the curtains had n't been |
| 14 | sit here do n't we and nothing to say to each other . |
| 15 | Sometimes I 've er Okay so it seems like it seems like a terrific amount to think about while you 're standing here does n't it as well as thinking about what you 're actually the content of what you 're actually going to say . |
| 16 | We saw earlier did n't we when we talked about , about future who did that ? |
| 17 | That silts up again then does n't it when you dredged it up ? |
| 18 | and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and |
| 19 | Now it 's on , the light comes on does n't it when it 's on ? |
| 20 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 21 | I just thought — Reg is away tonight , so why do n't you and Tessa sleep in our double bed downstairs ? |
| 22 | Why do n't you and me go some place , see who 's out and about down the Grove ? |
| 23 | More audibly , as he opened the car door for Anna , he went on , ‘ Sam , why do n't you and Anna come back to my place ? |
| 24 | Why do n't you and I talk about it separately then |
| 25 | If Ross is n't around to deal with his awful mother , and if your life in her house is so unbearable , why do n't you and the kids move into our apartment in Wapping ? ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , you know why do n't you because that side bits down the back , he probably thinks you 've been bloody fiddling with it . |