Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sleep the whole night through he might have , had not he woken suddenly , for no apparent reason , into crisis . |
| 2 | Had n't they seen the statue of him in the Market Place where he stood with his palette , apparently painting the pub and King 's the grocer 's ? |
| 3 | Why had n't they given it to her ? |
| 4 | Yet had n't they suffered enough already ? |
| 5 | Had n't they said she had flu ? |
| 6 | Why had n't they faded with time ? |
| 7 | And then he felt the music 's pull again , and thought that had n't they summoned Fael-Inis to help them , and was n't it sensible to obey him ? |
| 8 | Churchill was a particular hothead and , after all , if the Cabinet did n't condone what had happened , why had n't they authorised an enquiry ? |
| 9 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |
| 10 | Had n't they paid for it with their National Insurance stamps , income tax , and rates ? |
| 11 | ‘ And there it is , your throneships , ’ said Bith , beaming , because when all was said and done , had n't they produced the finest old sketches ever heard of and was n't there good reason for them to feel proud ? |
| 12 | Why had n't they told him ? |
| 13 | What had n't they thought of themselves ? she wondered with a frown . |
| 14 | They had n't they had no er inherent right to make resolutions or ask for increase in wages that was all done at conference by their their representatives . |
| 15 | Had n't they hurled back the Mongols from their frontiers and defeated the invasion forces of the Sung and Ming emperors ? |
| 16 | Why had n't they signalled they were coming in ? |
| 17 | He was thirty-eight years old at the time — why the hell had n't we heard of him ? |
| 18 | If I had n't we 'd never have survived and we certainly would n't have the standard of living we have now . |
| 19 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 20 | Yet virtually the first time we climbed together , had n't we spent nigh on a month clipping bolts in France and loving it ? |
| 21 | Why had n't she realized how hopeless she had become , how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy ? |
| 22 | Why had n't she questioned her about her constant visits to the lavatory first thing in the morning ? |
| 23 | Had n't she felt precisely the same about her sister Pet ? |
| 24 | If so , why had n't she felt ill ? |
| 25 | Had n't she felt stirred , moved , breathless when his mouth had trembled on hers , before the telephone rang and broke the spell ? |
| 26 | Her first instinct was to turn and walk straight back to the changing-rooms ; after all , had n't she come here at the one time when she 'd thought David Markham was safely out of the way ? |
| 27 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 28 | Why had n't she worn trousers or a skirt ? |
| 29 | And if by any chance it did n't , then Nelly Tilling would put her foot down — for had n't she seen , with her own eyes , young Albert Piggott in a Norfolk jacket much too small for him , signing the pledge all those years ago ? |
| 30 | His code was no problem ; had n't she seen it enough times anyway when he powered up the network ? |