Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let them not therefore bewail the delay of the Parousia . |
| 2 | Did she not now have a husband , a child , a home ? |
| 3 | Can you not just read the dictionary ? |
| 4 | Why then , you might ask , do you not simply train a lot less all year round if it makes you feel that much better when you cut back ? |
| 5 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 6 | Rutherford said , ‘ Would you not rather read the file first ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Could you not perhaps raise a mortgage on your house ? |
| 8 | Yes , but you 've got to just leave the the thing , come on I think they want to close , and I want to get to Marks , so do you not really want the collage kit at the moment , you 've got collage kit 's have n't you ? |
| 9 | But here also we can not predict how the couplet will proceed ; not only do we not yet know the grammatical or syntactic pattern of the next line , or its lexical contents , but , more importantly , we do not know what kind of a relationship what we have read will bear to what we have yet to read . |
| 10 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 11 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 12 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
| 13 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 14 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 15 | But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ? |