Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he not " in BNC.

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1 Or has he not bothered to work it out ?
2 Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ?
3 Was Mr. MacGregor lying , or did he not know ?
4 ‘ Does he , or does he not know where the ship is ? ’
5 Does he or does he not propose to abandon the green form scheme totally and completely ?
6 Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities .
7 And did he not send any word to anybody when he knew you were coming home ? ’
8 And did he not save himself then ?
9 And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ?
10 Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle .
11 Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self .
12 The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ?
13 Planes roared above , and had he not got used to their sound from his years in the Zoo he might have been afraid of them .
14 He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter .
15 He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian .
16 And had he not been perfectly willing , of course , to hit a woman every bit as hard as he would have struck a man .
17 But had he not offered , Lily reminded him , anything ( within reason ) to revive her spirits ?
18 But had he not fallen in with it too readily and too rapidly simply because it was a testimony to his secure tenure , a declaration before the world that he was a king indeed , and his progeny fit mates for the royalty of Europe ?
19 But had he not of abdicated he would of been the Que , King .
20 But does he not wonder what might have been had he been fit ?
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