Example sentences of "had [not/n't] he [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 he understood that she was n't interested in working for anybody else ? |
| 3 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 4 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 5 | ‘ But had n't he heard of the disappearance ? ’ |
| 6 | Had n't he heard as much from The Man himself often enough ? |
| 7 | Had n't he denied himself the pleasures of their company this last year ? |
| 8 | Had n't he suffered enough ? |
| 9 | Had Nigel noticed she 'd left , or had n't he missed her at all ? |
| 10 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 11 | Why had n't he seen through it ? |
| 12 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 13 | Why had n't he waited , at least until her father was home ? |
| 14 | But if Gramps had known all this , why in heaven 's name had n't he warned her ? |
| 15 | Why had n't he killed her too ? |
| 16 | Had n't he studied in France and seen the men of this supposedly superior civilization living amid their mighty machines and their great institutions ? |
| 17 | Why had n't he written to me ? |
| 18 | And they sent it to erm he sent it and he had n't he had n't done . |
| 19 | Why had n't he become a Sikh or a Hasidic jew ? |
| 20 | Had n't he realised that if he married a girl she had to eat ? |
| 21 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 22 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 23 | Kevin was a politician and of course his life was in the States , but had n't he said only the night before , ‘ My heart 's here in Ireland , Rose . ’ |
| 24 | Then why had n't he said ? |
| 25 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 26 | Had n't he said that to express it would be just empty words ? |
| 27 | As to the kisses , had n't he said it was because he was French ? |
| 28 | So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ? |
| 29 | Why had n't he stayed out of it ? |
| 30 | Had n't he cast the maids off ? |