Example sentences of "did [pron] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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1 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
2 | ‘ Did I not say that he was a good secretary ? ’ |
3 | Did you not think that your brother might be coming north soon ? |
4 | ‘ Did you or did you not say that the purpose of my presence here this evening was to give you information about my work ? ’ |
5 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
6 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
7 | 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 ? |
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 | Did she not think that such grieving as she had showed was somehow too much for any memory to bear ? |
10 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
11 | Did she not understand that I would look after her , that 1 would see to it that she was safe and well ? |
12 | Did they not say that these buses did not pick up at Norwood Gardens did n't they ? |
13 | But did they not realize that the God of Israel was a jealous God ? |
14 | Did he not know that 33 per cent of married women were going out to work , and that did n't mean they were competing to do Mrs Griffiths-Jones ’ dishes ? |