Example sentences of "do [not/n't] we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | did n't we also tear apart the west brom ground after they beat us 3 nil . |
| 2 | Why did n't we just check things in at the beginning and check things out at the end ? |
| 3 | ‘ Never too late … did n't we just prove that ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | yeah we went and bought a three pound , no a five pound pack of bacon did n't we right , right |
| 6 | Er the nurses had but we did n't we more district midwives on the district you see . |
| 7 | Denise McGrory and ‘ Did n't We Almost Have It All ’ walked away with overall laurels on the night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | We had a fuck , did n't we once ? |
| 11 | Do n't we anyway ? |
| 12 | But do n't we also know , if only in our dreams , that even as we do so we will one day just as surely tall down it ? |
| 13 | Do n't we also want revelation , surprise , inspiration from the wild ? |
| 14 | Do n't we also want revelation , surprise , inspiration from the wild ? ’ |
| 15 | The sudden impossible inspirations — ‘ Look , just a minute , why do n't we simply scrap the Triassic strata altogether , and to hell with it ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Then why do n't we simply drive back ? |
| 17 | We need lo we needs lots of piles of steaming horse manure and things do n't we around and |
| 18 | Why do n't we just go away for the day ? ’ |
| 19 | As Bob Hope said of the Stealth bomber , ‘ If it is supposed to be invisible to radar , why do n't we just not build it and tell the Russians it 's there ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She 's in such agony , ’ stormed Perdita , ‘ why do n't we just put her out of her misery ? ’ |
| 21 | And why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 22 | Why do n't we just call it New Mancunian Express and have done with it ? |
| 23 | OK , so why 's he on the cover , and why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 24 | Why do n't we just give Napoleon the keys to Berlin and have done with it ? |
| 25 | Perhaps this is a sign of Gill 's effect on me — that nowadays I can say something like , ‘ Why do n't we just take off ? ’ |
| 26 | " Why do n't we just agree , quickly , now , to one or two basics , " said Pat . |
| 27 | Why do n't we just go to the airport and get on a plane ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , darling , why do n't we just try Mischa ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't we just brave it out ? ’ asked Billie . |
| 30 | Look I know we said we would n't talk about it and maybe it 's not fair cos I do n't know what state you 'll be in when you get this , but why do n't we just move to the country and have babies ? |