Example sentences of "does n't [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Conservative opposition in the Lords is proving very important , and if Colonel is concerned about the future level of the police budget , why does n't he do a bit more to stop this nationalisation of the police going through parliament at the moment , and I just want to quote the , the words of Conservative Chairman of the Sussex police authority , over the years from nineteen eighty-two to nineteen ninety-three , four of them , and the most senior of course , who led the Association of County Councils for the Conservatives . |
| 2 | Does n't he drink a lot ? |
| 3 | It must be miles — why does n't he take a bus ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Does n't he have a lawyer ? ’ |
| 5 | I says what a bloody excuse , I says and his car broke down , shh bloody corporation buses here , why does n't he use a corporation bus to get in ? |
| 6 | Does n't he like the vet ? |
| 7 | " Does n't he look a fool ? " sniggered the ground pigeons as the pair went overhead . |
| 8 | Why does n't she take the hint ? ’ |
| 9 | Does n't she look a bit queer , Daddy ? ’ |
| 10 | Does n't she look a picture today ? |
| 11 | Does n't she realize the effect that she is having on other people ? |
| 12 | ‘ Does n't she get the message from that ? |
| 13 | Does n't it make a nonsense of the whole thing ? |
| 14 | And if the earth , as well as spinning , moves bodily around the sun , why does n't it leave the moon behind ? |
| 15 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 16 | Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ? |
| 17 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |