Example sentences of "n't [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't you on the council-house waiting list then ? ’ |
| 3 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 4 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 5 | They 'll restock wo n't they in the new year ? |
| 6 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |
| 7 | Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’ |
| 8 | Hm yes it 's better is n't it for the extra |
| 9 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 10 | it will be , it will be nice to get there sort of before it gets dark would n't it on the other side ? |
| 11 | I du n no it was about to shut was n't it at the same time and it it was like well it 's worth gon na get them . |
| 12 | Now , incorporated in these charges there 's a litter collection , so if litter is dumped on District Council ground , but they wo n't it at the Scottish Homes land , then the owner have to pay for this service . |
| 13 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 14 | If you ca n't buy these little black olives in Soho , at least avoid the great brownish ones sold in most delicatessen stores ; they really have n't anything of the same character . |