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in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount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 ? |