Example sentences of "does n't [pers pn] [verb] [art] " 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 get a full blooded game at the moment ?
5 Does n't he get the bristles on him !
6 But Labour 's shadow education secretary Mr Jack Straw said since only three of the 20 were in operation on the target date ‘ why does n't he recognise the CTC programme as an immoral and wasteful failure ? ’
7 Does n't he have a lawyer ? ’
8 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 ?
9 Does n't he like the vet ?
10 " Does n't he look a fool ? " sniggered the ground pigeons as the pair went overhead .
11 Does n't she fancy a horse-drawn carriage from Ayrshire Equitation — just £200 including coachman and attendants ?
12 Why does n't she go the doctors ?
13 Why does n't she take the hint ? ’
14 Does n't she look a bit queer , Daddy ? ’
15 Does n't she look a picture today ?
16 Why does n't she use a
17 Does n't she realize the effect that she is having on other people ?
18 Does n't she get the message from that ?
19 No it does n't you run the top tap now in the kitchen , turn it off that will ignite and come on go and try it .
20 Does n't it make a nonsense of the whole thing ?
21 And if the earth , as well as spinning , moves bodily around the sun , why does n't it leave the moon behind ?
22 Does n't it seem an awfully long way away , now ? ’
23 Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority .
24 You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name .
25 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 ) ?
26 Why does n't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys ?
27 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 .
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