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 ? ’
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