Example sentences of "[Wh adv] do n't " in BNC.
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1 | When do n't I want to go to bed with her ? |
2 | ( When do n't they ? ! ) |
3 | Yeah , well I say er I mean obviously Pauline remembers it from some when do n't she ? |
4 | week and he 's got to the stage now where do n't want |
5 | Why do n't you open ? |
6 | ‘ Why do n't you invite Paul Spence ? ’ |
7 | ‘ Why do n't you give me a hand with the rest of the work ? |
8 | Why do n't you stop here for the morning ? |
9 | Why do n't you pick on somebody else for a change ? |
10 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
11 | Why do n't you want to go back inside , where all the fun is ? ’ |
12 | Why do n't you find someone else ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Why do n't we go over to Richard and Jane 's one evening ? |
14 | ‘ Change your tune , why do n't you ! ’ said Jay . |
15 | Relegate those few kisses to ridicule , why do n't you ! |
16 | Why do n't you say anything ? |
17 | Look , why do n't you have a chat with Philip ? |
18 | ‘ Why do n't you just talk straight- ’ Madam Mosely sucks a mint with vigour . |
19 | In the Possessed notebooks Dostoevsky tries a snatch of dialogue in which Stavrogin is asked ‘ Why do n't you just simply live ? ’ ; and he replies ‘ Ah , that 's the hardest thing of all ’ . |
20 | ‘ Why do n't you take me back to my house and I 'll try some other way ? ’ |
21 | ‘ Why do n't you get your head down now , Sid ? |
22 | By the way , Piper , ’ he continued , ‘ why do n't you sleep over at the big house ? |
23 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
24 | So why do n't you piss off back to where you come from and leave the decent people of that once great borough alone . |
25 | Alright then , he said , if you 're so keen , why do n't you go and find them yourselves ? |
26 | ‘ Why do n't you look muscly ? ’ |
27 | Why do n't we just go away for the day ? ’ |
28 | ‘ I 'm in my 30s now , ’ she adds , ‘ and a lot of my friends are looking round and saying , ‘ Why do n't you have a family , a husband and a baby ? ’ |
29 | ‘ But why do n't you use the goddam bog ? ’ someone says . |
30 | It 's all pretty confusing cos Colin ai n't a cat or nothing , so why do n't he use the toilet ? |