Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes I do think you need to why do n't you just try dishing it up out of the thing ? |
2 | ‘ Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’ |
3 | Exposure to teaching by other staff might also increase motivation in those nurses who do not themselves normally participate in teaching , and such improvements may also have financial benefits in the longer term through overall increases in efficiency . |
4 | Provided that the relevant conditions are met ( see below ) , a firm can treat the following as market counterparties : ( 1 ) Other members of SFA ( in relation to any investments , even if they do not normally deal in them ) ; ( 2 ) Trading members of investment exchanges ( in relation to investments of the kind traded on the exchange , even if they do not themselves normally deal in them , and related derivatives ) . |
5 | There is the hypothesis that these input systems do not themselves fully specify the information we derive from them , that there is subconscious guesswork involved in acts of seeing , hearing and language processing : the mind is constrained to operate on a least effort principle , imposing the first interpretation it can , commensurate with providing adequate information ( SPERBER and WILSON 1986 ) . |
6 | Do not they also draw attention to the willingness of some countries and some parties to sign up to measures that they have no intention of implementing ? |
7 | and it was er open on her bed , she popped out for , for about , I du n no forty odd minutes to get her hair done or something I was well tempted to have a look , but I thought no if I get a diary and somebody looked , looked through mine I would n't be happy about it , so I did n't its quite a hard temptation but |
8 | Did n't 'e ever find out ? ’ the carman asked . |
9 | did n't we also tear apart the west brom ground after they beat us 3 nil . |
10 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |
11 | ‘ Never too late … did n't we just prove that ? ’ |
12 | Now if we 'd have started off four X cubed minus X all squared we would have two times this lot but we did n't we just got once this so we must have started off this is only a coefficient only a a factor . |
13 | yeah we went and bought a three pound , no a five pound pack of bacon did n't we right , right |
14 | Er the nurses had but we did n't we more district midwives on the district you see . |
15 | Denise McGrory and ‘ Did n't We Almost Have It All ’ walked away with overall laurels on the night . |
16 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
17 | Well I do n't know , we had , not so long ago we had National Dormouse Week did n't we further in the autumn |
18 | We had a fuck , did n't we once ? |
19 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
20 | Were they ever professional , boy , did they ever work hard , well , did n't they just talk and work as if that melodrama of near separation had never happened . |
21 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
22 | Oh well he , he no he did n't they just come and went and |
23 | Who did n't they just throw him out ? |
24 | He knew it was what they wanted to do , what they had planned to do , so why did n't they just do it then ? |
25 | Why did n't they just dismount ? ’ |
26 | Why did n't they just cancel the whole thing ? ’ |
27 | and if you leave a message it will be dealt with and people do leave a message , whereas before when it just said I 'm sorry I 'm not available they did n't they just put the phone down . |
28 | Why did n't they just stop at the sea ? |
29 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
30 | ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field . |