Example sentences of "[vb past] n't he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't he also did n't let people know what he was doing as well . |
| 2 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 3 | Why did n't he just stay where he was behind the vehi Everyone else was taking their time . |
| 4 | Why did n't he just say she looked absolutely wonderful ? |
| 5 | If that was what the speaker intended to say , why did n't he just say it ? |
| 6 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 7 | Why did n't he just vomit in public like some of his colleagues ? |
| 8 | Did n't he always come when summoned ? |
| 9 | Did n't he ever stop talking , poking his nose in ? |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't he ever do anything good for you ? ’ |
| 11 | Why did n't he ever buy me anything ? |
| 12 | Did n't he ever write to your mother at some time or other ? ’ and she said , ‘ I … |
| 13 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 14 | Had n't he also got his landlady 's daughter with child ? |
| 15 | He felt that Woolley had no right to be so contemptuous , so damaging ; Killion alone could not have stopped a bombing raid ; besides , had n't he just destroyed two , maybe three of the enemy ? |
| 16 | Had n't he already said that he disliked women who threw themselves at him ? |
| 17 | Had n't he already described himself as ‘ a political animal ’ — ‘ and with £19.50p attendance money a day as a Sheffield councillor , on which I 'm dependent by the way , I 'd need to be a political animal . ’ |
| 18 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 19 | Not that that was unusual ; had n't he always dominated whatever space he was in ? |