Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But can you say , sir , that there is nothing between you that should not be ? [ pause ] You answer me not and may I not fairly presume you can not ? |
| 2 | Should we not therefore expect God 's gifts to have their satanic counterpart ? |
| 3 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 4 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 5 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 6 | Could you not equally have said : ‘ Ha ! |
| 7 | Could you not just have asked me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Could you not perhaps raise a mortgage on your house ? |
| 9 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 10 | Could we not just put |
| 11 | could we not just circulate them ? |
| 12 | Why could they not always live together like this ? |
| 13 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 14 | May we not reasonably suppose that it had migrated from the central regions of this vast continent , which has yet much in store for future discovery ? |
| 15 | I says Richard would you not even go on to the tech and , or somewhere that you could get better on your drawing and he , he |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Rutherford said , ‘ Would you not rather read the file first ? ’ |
| 18 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 19 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 20 | ‘ However the fortunes of war shall go … ’ , asks Théoden , ‘ may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth ? ’ |
| 21 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 22 | Well , well that 's what I said , but she says can I not just alter it and leave it at that ? |
| 23 | Can you not just take John 's now ? |
| 24 | Can you not just read the dictionary ? |
| 25 | So I can you not just stick it out till I ring Brian ? |
| 26 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 27 | Why then can we not simply say that topless ( a ) and topless ( b ) are different ( although perhaps related ) lexemes ? |
| 28 | Erm , can we not just toss some thoughts |
| 29 | Can he not still keep his company car though , off sick . |
| 30 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |