Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] he [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Was Mr. MacGregor lying , or did he not know ? |
| 3 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 4 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 5 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 6 | The pygmy king gave Herla a small dog to set on his saddle as a parting gift , and told him not to get off his horse until the dog did . |
| 7 | This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it . |
| 8 | I got up , we were lying on the sofa , and knelt by him and told him not to worry . |
| 9 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 10 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 11 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 12 | I scampered to his window and begged him not to call my remaining number , but he did . |
| 13 | A BRAVE grandmother smothered a knife-wielding robber with kisses and begged him not to kill her or her three-year-old grand-daughter . |
| 14 | From the day of their first meeting , Paul Alexandre was struck by his prodigious artistic talents and begged him not to destroy any of his studies , offering him what little money a young doctor could spare . |
| 15 | He never liked the woman , but when she wept and begged him not to turn her out he weakened . |
| 16 | MDU members felt that Batmönh was the only leader capable of making responsible decisions and begged him not to resign the presidency . |
| 17 | I thanked the baker and begged him not to let Granpa know what I was about , as I wanted to close the metsieh before he found out . |
| 18 | ‘ And did he not send any word to anybody when he knew you were coming home ? ’ |
| 19 | And did he not save himself then ? |
| 20 | And had he not , with the utmost delicacy , nurtured in them the impression that they and not he were in control of events ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And had he not been perfectly willing , of course , to hit a woman every bit as hard as he would have struck a man . |
| 28 | But had he not offered , Lily reminded him , anything ( within reason ) to revive her spirits ? |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | But had he not of abdicated he would of been the Que , King . |