Example sentences of "do n't he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blacksmiths were the thing on the side of the road , did n't he do all the wheeling , mend your wheels , and all horse , all iron wheels , and things like that , wo n't years ago , and you had to send for him to come and do 'em , w well , he had men that he 'd , that he 'd taught like boys , apprentices . |
| 2 | Secondly , when readers complain about the lives of writers — why did n't he do this ; why did n't he protest to the newspapers about that ; why was n't he more involved in life ? — are n't they really asking a simpler , and vainer , question : why is n't he more like us ? |
| 3 | Why did n't he do any features ? |
| 4 | Why did n't he lay concrete you ask ? |
| 5 | Every time Shirley was on the telly thereafter , I would notice how she put her head to one side and agreed absolutely with the questioner ‘ except did n't he think that … ’ . |
| 6 | Did n't he recognize that trade , the trade union movement had a role to play er in that , in , on that page and to the , to the credit of , of the local press , they had responded and so we are now asked to put forward the views of the trade union movement , something I think which local trades councils should be doing , should be the role of local trades councils to do that effectively . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't he want more than just sailing ? ’ |
| 8 | Clarissa said it did n't seem to matter , because here he was , free again , and did n't he feel ashamed of getting tiddly at lunchtime ? |
| 9 | Why did n't he get killed , too ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Why did n't he know most things by intuition — and by listening to the other animals talking ? |
| 12 | And did n't he did n't he , did n't , did n't he look cute in that |
| 13 | Did n't he have that |
| 14 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 15 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 16 | Did n't he live next door ? ’ |
| 17 | Did n't he like that or |
| 18 | Well why did n't he say that yesterday then ? |
| 19 | Well why do n't he use that bloke at St. Johns , who you use ? |
| 20 | Smaller children and deaf grannies in the congregation twittered , as each year they twittered , like starlings on telegraph wires , urgent and aimless , look there 's our Janet , look at our Ron , there , do n't he look funny , lovely , dignified , daft . |
| 21 | Do n't he look cute ! |
| 22 | Do n't he look old ? |
| 23 | Does n't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal ? |
| 24 | does n't he do any running any more ? |
| 25 | Why does n't he do this ? |
| 26 | Why does n't he stay single ? |
| 27 | And if he does n't he goes mad ! |
| 28 | He recalls being patted on the head by one fashion editor who said , ‘ Does n't he talk cute ? ’ , and deliberately parking his Rolls in front of the Managing Director 's Humber so that he could n't pull out . |
| 29 | Erm should the erm that , given that er , sorry , that the er , er O P C S in fact erm er after every census makes er guesses about its accuracy erm would erm the spokesman , is the spokesman aware that in fact O P C S has said that a fair erm representation of the intercensal increase in population in Leicestershire er between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety one is in fact fifteen thousand people and does n't he feel that to provide for fifty three thousand in the structure plan is a little over the top ? |
| 30 | So why does n't he get vicious ? |