Example sentences of "n't [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't me molesting them . |
| 2 | Why did n't someone stop her ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh but look here , does n't someone show me round — show me the ropes sort of thing ? ’ |
| 4 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 5 | Why does n't someone bring me some food ? |
| 6 | Wo n't someone tell me a story ? |
| 7 | " Why has n't someone told me this before ? |
| 8 | I do n't I mean it 's sort of like you know , everybody has a right to this . |
| 9 | And I mean I would n't I mean it 's no way , even Sid says I would n't drive all the way up there to see them . |
| 10 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 11 | I do n't I mean you 're not going to write about oxen very often are you ? |
| 12 | You ca n't I mean you ca n't just prosecute it and it will go away . |
| 13 | But you do n't I mean you 're gon na production anyway by putting the chiller in presumably are n't you ? |
| 14 | You do n't I mean you do n't see a tree with a flat top with all the branches coming out do you ? |
| 15 | I do n't , I do n't I mean I do n't quite agree with what you 're saying cos you seem to be saying whatever party 's in power in local government it 's gon na be exactly the same |
| 16 | I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions . |
| 17 | And er I could n't I mean I do a lot of gardening there were n no problems at all , so I took them t well you can see what 's left . |
| 18 | I do n't I mean I do n't think really the majority of people who mess around at Halloween understand what what is really going on . |
| 19 | Er but do n't I mean I 'm not the fact that erm some topics have a bigger number than others and others have only got one does n't mean they wo n't be on the paper Now , there will be some of you who will do spot revision . |
| 20 | So erm these two girls , I could n't I mean I was reading but could n't tell but they could . |
| 21 | Oh no I do n't I mean I do n't say |
| 22 | I did n't I mean I know I 've been married to him for thir twenty five year but did n't know her all that . |
| 23 | She does n't I mean she does n't bother that much now does she ? |
| 24 | Had n't I lost it , no ? |
| 25 | Why do n't I show you the place where Mountbatten was killed ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Why should n't I show it to him , anyway ? |
| 27 | Now why do n't I pour us a drink ? ’ |
| 28 | Life is a film — why should n't I watch it ? |
| 29 | Just like your dad , you are and did n't I tell him that teaching you reading and writing would n't bring any good ? ’ |
| 30 | But why do n't I tell him myself ? |