Example sentences of "n't we [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were n't we slow ? |
| 2 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
| 3 | Have n't we come on ! |
| 4 | Oh no it is n't we intend to redevelop the site |
| 5 | Have n't we put the cat among the pigeons ? |
| 6 | Are n't we close up ? |
| 7 | No we have n't we 've got ten minutes , ha , five minutes . |
| 8 | And then she said to me , and then , when I was going , she went to me , would you like to come on holiday , I went , then she went , because of me and mum and dad , we went another day to holiday , we went to beach , and er , mum said , that , yeah , mum said that she was saying , erm , to her , why , why is it not , what was it she said , about the weather , mum was moaning saying it was cold , and she went why , why are n't we go on holiday , mum , and mum said we ca n't , we ca n't afford to go on holiday , and she ah , why do n't we go to seaside when it 's cold . |
| 9 | There would then be other means however for us to pursue our our concerns that have n't we know er are moving into a future speculative situation , but if they 're not taken up we have other means of pursuing those , but they would n't affect the the conformity issue . |
| 10 | And so a sanitized canon of soul and funk was drawn up : James Brown 's ‘ Say it Loud , I 'm Black and I 'm Proud ’ , Curtis Mayfield 's ‘ Move On Up ’ and ‘ We 've got to Have Peace ’ , Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ , Gil Scott Heron 's ‘ The Bottle ’ , Grandmaster Flash 's ‘ The Message ’ , Brother D and the Collective Effort 's ‘ How We Gon na Make the Black Nation Rise ’ , James Brown and Afrika Bambatta 's ‘ Unity ’ . |
| 11 | Enter Mike , a Londoner who moved out to Lausanne six years ago ( and may be remembered for his '83 cover version of Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ as erm , Mike Anthony ) . |
| 12 | And have we not got ta take care that we do n't we do n't have such an enormous list |
| 13 | Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know . |
| 14 | Cos we do n't we do n't like to say in maths we do n't like to say we ca n't do it . |
| 15 | it is n't it is n't my religion , we do n't we do n't celebrate anything er I mean I know Christmas o obviously there 's a lot of pagan things in Christmas . |
| 16 | You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer . |
| 17 | I mean we 're so busy with our own we do n't really you know we do n't we do n't feel at all upstaged by the lodge I think you know we just work together really you know because it makes sense you know I do n't think there 's no big |
| 18 | Erm , there you are , that 's always political , and we do n't we do n't want |
| 19 | But we do n't we do n't |
| 20 | Now we do n't we do n't need to work with iron . |
| 21 | Although we could n't tell them that we 're trying to achieve because we have n't we have n't discussed |
| 22 | We have n't we have n't analyzed the results according to the treatment that the patients received . |
| 23 | Er now we we 're trying very hard I have n't I have n't managed at this particular moment to er to contact with Mary Whitehouse we erm we have n't we have n't we will try and er in it 'll it 'll probably happen you never know . |
| 24 | Yeah we have n't we have n't got much to go away and |
| 25 | Bernard soon awoke and asked ; ‘ Are n't we home yet ? ’ |