Example sentences of "do not [pers pn] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 2 | Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ? |
| 3 | We went to breakfast and Mark Cox was sitting there and he asked us ‘ Did n't we know that there was coup in Russia ? ’ and he told us everything . |
| 4 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 5 | Did n't they realise that mountaineering was a serious business ? |
| 6 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't you mention that someone had asked to see me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 9 | Did n't you know that these were not originally invented to wind yarn on to ? |
| 10 | Did n't you know that everything you learn , and everything you suffer , will come in useful at some time in your life ? " |
| 11 | ‘ Did n't you know that Venus holds sway over both of us ? |
| 12 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 13 | ‘ Did n't you write that awfully clever play The Rate-payer ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
| 15 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 16 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 17 | Now Edna said , did n't you say that the all the sideboards coming . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't I say that letting them learn to read was a bad idea ? |
| 20 | He did n't I knows that I knows it I knows it . |
| 21 | Did n't she realise that he saw through every trick she used . |
| 22 | Did n't she say that the college was , they were paying the college to ? |
| 23 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't she understand that it might look like she had bought him off with bribery ? ’ the leader asked . |
| 25 | Did n't he know that flight of ideas was one of the cardinal signs of schizophrenia ? ’ |
| 26 | Did n't he know that millions of women worked ? |
| 27 | How perceptive he is , but did n't he know that the BBC had already produced it about two years ago with Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin ? |
| 28 | Yeah but did n't he say that he was gon na try and Tory party . |
| 29 | Why do n't we make that like a rebel fort ? |
| 30 | Er , you might just say well why do n't we pass that on to the clients , but we do n't . |