Example sentences of "do [pron] not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Do you not think of those who must be responsible for them , who bear the burden and strain without training , and without help of any kind ?
2 ‘ Why do you not speak to Chambers ? ’
3 Do you not , do you not want to every week ?
4 ‘ Then why do you not go to bed ? ’
5 Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ?
6 Why do you not steal from shops ?
7 Do you not agree with that ?
8 Well these days a lot of women decide to have children er , o outside er erm , certainly outside marriage and indeed outside a couple , and that is possible , do you not approve of that ?
9 ‘ Then , if you think that I have overstated the reality , why do you not come with me into the slums of Whitechapel or Limehouse ?
10 Do you not believe in God either , Uncle Rory ? ’
11 Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth .
12 Not only do we not get from the Enlightenment an understanding of human nature that is under the curse of the fall , neither do we get a true understanding of men and women made in the image of God .
13 Therefore , before any policy conclusions are drawn from the figures recently published , do we not need to be sure ( i ) that we can predict with some success which defendants are likely ( at more than 50 per cent .
14 What it comes down to is do we , or do we not approve of killing animals for fun do we approve of allowing a pack of dogs to hunt an animal to its death .
15 In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria .
16 Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ?
17 Do they not lurk on the surface of every shape , in the resonance of every sound , in the hue of every colour , and at the root of every plant ?
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