Example sentences of "why ca [adv] [pron] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't they just tell you ? |
| 2 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
| 3 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 4 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
| 5 | Er , why ca n't they just look at , er do a means test for child benefit ? |
| 6 | Why ca n't we just have them in a loose-leaf binder with dividers in , and let the engineer decide how to hold documentation together ? |
| 7 | Why ca n't you just stay home forever , daddy ? |
| 8 | ‘ What I mean is , why ca n't you just admit that it was wonderfully exciting to fuck somebody else ? ’ |
| 9 | Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 11 | Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 12 | Why ca n't you just leave it on ? |
| 13 | It 's a glorious , peaceful summer day — why ca n't you just lie back like me and soak up some of those gorgeous golden rays ? ’ |
| 14 | But why ca n't you just put one over the top there or something ? |
| 15 | Why ca n't you just use a task request form that says . |
| 16 | Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . " |
| 17 | ‘ Why ca n't you just let me live my life how I want to ? ’ |
| 18 | Why ca n't he just interview me , ask my experience as a waitress ? |
| 19 | Why do I have to carry them around — why ca n't I just remember them ? |
| 20 | Ludens thought , why ca n't I do that , why ca n't I just ask a woman to hold my hand , why ca n't I ask Franca to ! |
| 21 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |