Example sentences of "[verb] why [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case mister police-y man decides to stop us and say why have n't you put your seat-y belt on Mrs M Mrs woman ? |
| 2 | They say why do you have to talk about that just now . |
| 3 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 4 | There is an increasing discrimination on my view because of the racism that exists as well as the sexism that exists within our society , and when you say why do n't women do more , the odds against women , particularly black or working class women , are very heavy . |
| 5 | What was the idea what was the idea of coal tokens and milk tokens , why did n't you just buy Why did n't you just pay for the coal and the milk ? |
| 6 | Do you , well do you then know why does n't , is n't Rob in touch with them any more ? |
| 7 | I do n't know why doing it . |
| 8 | I do n't know why do it then and then drive slowly ! |
| 9 | said well if the E E C say it has to be done why do n't |
| 10 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
| 11 | So if you do n't eat what you catch why choose |
| 12 | So everyone goes out , buys a gun and when a policeman says why have you got that gun ? |
| 13 | She says why do n't I go out there on a visit . |
| 14 | and I says why do n't you , no , but like |
| 15 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 16 | Oh we 've got , I do n't think we 've got anything on Saturday night , erm , Sunday that we got , Graham , Graham and Janet and for lunch , mum says why do you |
| 17 | Well I says to him , I says if you were that interested I says while I 'm watching I says why do n't you come and see , I says , give us a shake |
| 18 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 19 | Oh Norah from Compton Acres has rung up and says why spoil the arboretum lake ? |
| 20 | He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ? |
| 21 | We learnt why seconds frequently jumar on this wall . |
| 22 | Listen why do n't you let us pull the door to nan |
| 23 | Well look why do n't you just sketch it out on there so I know the sort of thing that yo oh , you 've got one have you ? |
| 24 | And I said , look why do n't you meet me in front of Conway Hall and kill me then , it would save so much time . |
| 25 | Well look why do n't you have one of these then you can do it properly . |
| 26 | There 's some on the floor there look why do n't you take that downstairs , and use it . |
| 27 | Look why do n't you do the colouring for now and then I 'll help you do that in a little while when I 've done this bingo ? |
| 28 | turning over , I ca n't be bothered why do n't we just carry on |
| 29 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 30 | Just because we do n't always understand why does n't mean there is n't a reason behind what He does . |