Example sentences of "[pron] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had I not felt this when she was there ? |
| 2 | I was telling you , was I not , that I was seeing with exactness what the English workman was doing while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 3 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 4 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 5 | How could I not feel it ? |
| 6 | Am I not cuddly enough to be called ? ’ — Irate woman delegate . |
| 7 | When do I not pay SSP ? |
| 8 | When do I not pay SSP ? |
| 9 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 10 | Why should I not be proud . |
| 11 | Now goodbye ! do I not seem happy , or at least sordidly content ? |
| 12 | ‘ So why am I not being compensated for loss of office according to British scales ? , |
| 13 | I 'm sure I would n't have got this far musically had I not been a model . ’ |
| 14 | Have I not said so ? ’ |
| 15 | Not only could I not do it but the effort was so excruciating that I opened my mouth to scream and could n't breathe enough for that either . |
| 16 | ‘ How could I not be ? |
| 17 | That is eight years ago , and the Board would now be doing Chapter III work , both in Essex and Norfolk , had I not made myself damned unpleasant … |
| 18 | My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee . |
| 19 | Here was a further cause for retrospective anxiety which , had I not re-examined Fraser McLuskey 's Parachute Padre , might have haunted me . |
| 20 | Should I not , when confronting such decisions , carry on as before but take his advice as a factor counting in favour of the decision he recommends ? |
| 21 | Am I not a peace-loving man ? ’ |
| 22 | And if I will kill for you , my dallta , will I not lie for you also , to make your heart clear again ? |
| 23 | Was I not right about the wee lass , saints preserve her ! |
| 24 | ‘ Lachlan , sit you down again and see have I not got a grand idea . |
| 25 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
| 26 | On that particular occasion , had I not recognized Miss Kenton 's footsteps on the boards as she came towards me , I would have been able to identify her only from her outline . |
| 27 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 28 | Would I or would I not welcome the security of a rope ? |
| 29 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 30 | A world of cruel greed , rape , nuclear war , phallocentric control , where women are pushed to the sidelines , how can I not be afraid of you ? |