Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had n't they just put a notice up on the screen half through the scene she was shooting when she died , saying this has to stop somewhere ? |
| 2 | Flaherty asked who was to take the sketches to the Fire Court and the Gnomes at once looked alarmed , because had n't they already travelled all the way from Gallan and it a terrible long journey , never mind getting lost twice , as well as the Robemaker 's Workshops and the Cruachan Cavern being on the route . |
| 3 | Had n't she just described the truly religious man , someone in the world but not of it ? |
| 4 | Why had n't she simply walked out of the theatre as soon as she 'd discovered he was in the cast ? |
| 5 | Had n't she already acknowledged to herself that it was better that they did n't touch — or do anything to aggravate a volatile situation ? |
| 6 | Had n't she already given herself that very same advice ? |
| 7 | But then , had n't she already found that out ? |
| 8 | For had n't she already experienced the heat of the fires which burned beneath his deceptively cool surface ? |
| 9 | Had n't she already known the score — Luke 's one-time involvement with Elise ? |
| 10 | Had n't she already taken time off work which she could ill afford in her sister 's interests ? |
| 11 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 12 | Had n't she always concentrated all her energies on having a good time , even though she knew deep down that she wanted to do more with her life ? |
| 13 | But then , had n't she always known that he was a good and decent man ? |
| 14 | He might be kind , gentle even , but his words would be no more than a courteous cloak of indifference ; for had n't she now joined the ranks of women who wanted him ? |
| 15 | " Then had n't you better let me in ? " |
| 16 | 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 " ? |
| 17 | Had n't he also got his landlady 's daughter with child ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Had n't he already said that he disliked women who threw themselves at him ? |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Not that that was unusual ; had n't he always dominated whatever space he was in ? |
| 23 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |