Example sentences of "n't [indef pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't everyone just take what they want and damn the consequences ? ’ |
| 2 | Of course , you 'd read of these places and screwed up your nose in disgust and said such things should n't be permitted , and why did n't someone else do something about it . |
| 3 | The use of a ‘ killer phrase ’ such as ‘ Well , if that 's such a great idea , why has n't someone else done it ? ’ is like telling a parent that their child has no talent . |
| 4 | But the RCA executive just said ‘ If that 's such a good idea , why has n't someone else tried it ’ . |
| 5 | Wo n't somebody please tell me what 's going on ? ’ she demanded . |
| 6 | ‘ Should n't somebody else take over at the wheel ? ’ she asked anxiously . |
| 7 | Why could n't somebody else find it ? |
| 8 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 9 | What a pity there is n't something there to cure the sickness of a love which is n't returned . |
| 10 | She ai n't one ter complain . ’ |
| 11 | Does n't anybody else want to get up and scream DAVID HARVEY ! ! ! at the television , when ex wino Greavesie says Scotland have n't had a decent keeper in thirty years . |
| 12 | Does n't anyone else want to do this ? |
| 13 | Was n't anyone else involved at all ? ’ |
| 14 | We 've not found anything because there is n't anyone else involved . ’ |
| 15 | If you have n't anyone else to fight , you 'll fight among yourselves . |
| 16 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 17 | Has n't anyone ever come unstuck ? |
| 18 | Did n't anyone ever buy paint , for goodness ' sake ? |
| 19 | ‘ Did n't anyone ever teach you to knock ? |
| 20 | Has n't anyone ever told you not to shine a torch in someone 's eyes . |
| 21 | As far as I can see , there really is n't anything else to talk about , is there ? ’ |
| 22 | There was n't anything else to do but laugh . |
| 23 | Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ . |
| 24 | Oh no , oh no you could n't heat anything up no , no but erm oh we well there was n't anything else you have to accept things do n't you , there was n't anything else to do . |
| 25 | You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it . |
| 26 | ‘ There is n't anything really to discuss . |
| 27 | Does n't anything ever close in Copenhagen ? ’ |