Example sentences of "[vb past] n't the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did n't the Roman army use conkers in their catapults ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did n't the bloody polis get on to him and clear his place out ? |
| 3 | ‘ But you 've got to ask the questions : why did n't the other shopkeepers have a problem , why have n't the new owners of the off-licence ? |
| 4 | ‘ But why did n't the first guest get the poisoned beef ? ’ |
| 5 | No we did n't the back door . |
| 6 | Not only did n't the soft voice sound like a witch 's , thought Virginia ; the face did n't look a bit like a witch 's ; in fact , she decided , the witch sounded and looked so sweet and gentle that she could n't be a witch ! |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , did n't the last husband say something about ‘ Lose the fat or lose me ’ ? |
| 8 | I had n't the remotest idea , but I followed the little rails which were used by the tiny railway to carry food up to the dining rooms … |
| 9 | Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault . |
| 10 | It was the company that Joanna Martin missed the most when she left to get married : " all the girls helped each other , and if you had n't the right kind of type , someone helped you " . |
| 11 | Why had n't the stupid boy said he would see Hank in school in the morning ? |
| 12 | He had n't the vicious streak that showed in his brother , and might prove a very good team-member . |
| 13 | He was brooding and she had n't the faintest doubt about why . |
| 14 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 15 | He did n't really mind which one , the Hallé would do for a start , but he had n't the faintest idea how to go about it and nor had anyone else . |
| 16 | ‘ For a long time , ’ replied Ray , ‘ I had n't the faintest idea . |
| 17 | She had n't the faintest idea what this thing was . |
| 18 | I had n't the faintest idea who he was , but he looked jolly . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh that one , ’ he said , although he had n't the faintest idea . |
| 20 | Joe had n't the faintest idea what I was talking about but he worked away enthusiastically and by the next afternoon we were ready to hang the rope-ladder . |
| 21 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 22 | He had n't the faintest idea — and being the Colonel , did n't bother to find out . ’ |
| 23 | She had n't the faintest idea what she was going below to do . |
| 24 | The gauntlet had been flung in clear sight of them both , and where they went from there Claudia had n't the faintest idea . |
| 25 | How dared he surmise her behaviour when he had n't the faintest idea of what her childhood had been like ? |
| 26 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 27 | He looked fiercely alarming and in actual fact she had n't the faintest idea how to begin this task . |
| 28 | ‘ Now , ’ pointing the gun towards her attacker and praying inwardly she would n't be called upon to use it since she had n't the faintest idea how firearms worked , she glanced over towards Adam and the other man still engaged in a tussle on the floor , ‘ I suggest we call a halt to all this nonsense . ’ |
| 29 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 30 | Yes and he had n't the faintest idea of how to do it ! |