Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy .
2 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 .
3 What about the cattle which our bird and animal loving army allows to graze on the latter , or do they not matter ?
4 ‘ But , ’ said the stranger , ‘ do you or do you not know that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent until he is proved — proved — to be guilty ? ’
5 Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial .
6 If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) .
7 Or did she not think at all ?
8 The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ?
9 Was Mr. MacGregor lying , or did he not know ?
10 Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ?
11 Did I tell you or did I not tell you
12 Or did you not bother with the slap because you were enjoying the tickling so much ? ’
13 Or did you not tell her a time ?
14 What time did you tell Marg , or did you not tell her a time ?
15 ‘ Did you or did you not say that the purpose of my presence here this evening was to give you information about my work ? ’
16 ‘ Did you or did you not get a cheque ? ’
17 Well let me put it plainly , did you or did you not know that there were two children or three children indeed in that flat ?
18 ‘ Did you or did you not read this book to the reception class ? ’ yelled Ali .
19 Or does it not do it ?
20 ‘ Does he , or does he not know where the ship is ? ’
21 Does he or does he not propose to abandon the green form scheme totally and completely ?
22 And let me not suggest that booksellers are blameless either .
23 And let us not forget the men of Sodom , the original buggers ( in the proper sense of that much used word ) .
24 Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times .
25 Exactly , and let us not forget this either .
26 And do you not know that friars come and go … everywhere !
27 And did he not send any word to anybody when he knew you were coming home ? ’
28 And did he not save himself then ?
29 And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’
30 Should this not be taken into account , and does it not appear that it is not taken into account in the voluntary code ?
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