Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [not/n't] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Ooh did n't , Neil did n't you say he do n't like football |
2 | Cloward and Ohlin ( 1960 ) , in a highly influential work did not themselves draw any treatment conclusions ( although their ideas inspired a major treatment programme ) . |
3 | Did n't she ha well , to get from A to B did n't she have to leave the building somewhere ? |
4 | The devoted husband did not himself go to Cumnor , but sent his cousin , Sir Thomas Blount , to investigate . |
5 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
6 | Well I quoted the three thousand as it stood , and , but Wayne wo n't , Wayne wo n't take that , in fact Wayne says on the phone did n't he tell him |
7 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
8 | CATHERINE Did n't they tell you where you came from ? |
9 | ‘ Why the devil did n't he ring me to say you were coming ? ’ |
10 | Then in exasperation , ‘ Why the devil did n't you stop me sooner ? ’ |
11 | spoke to since then , they says , why the heck did n't you say summat ? |
12 | Husband : Listen ; on our wedding day did n't I say it ? |
13 | If you 're so keen on procreation , why in God 's name did n't you marry Alison ? |
14 | ‘ Jean , ’ she cried , her eyes blazing , ‘ why in God 's name did n't you write ? ’ |
15 | I say and we cleaned all fire and everything out this morning did n't we do well ? |
16 | Also every team needs a bit of luck — the Spurs game is a prime example did n't we hit the post twice and conceede a dubious free kick which gave them their goal ! |
17 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
18 | Marx did not himself create a systematic theory of the global system , though his work certainly guided Lenin and others in their attempts to construct a theory of imperialism . |
19 | Although the bulk of Galileo 's scientific work was designed to strengthen the Copernican theory , Galileo did not himself devise a detailed astronomy , and seemed to follow the Aristotelians in their preference for circular orbits . |
20 | That man did n't he get any more money out of it , but we , do n't let him get away with thinking their giving him |
21 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
22 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
23 | ‘ Why the fuck did n't you make your presence known ? , |
24 | Why the fuck did nt he have an operation to start with ? ? |
25 | ‘ Why the hell did n't they sell you to the Angels when they had the chance ? ’ |
26 | ‘ Why the hell did n't she tell me ? ’ |
27 | Then why the hell did n't he knock on the door ? |
28 | His voice changed to a snarl : ‘ Then why the hell did n't he say so ? ’ |
29 | So why the hell did n't he ring her ? |
30 | ‘ Why the hell did n't he turn up before ? ’ |