Example sentences of "[verb] not [pron] just [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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1 | It would n't be mine , but it 's better than having a could , why did n't you just get a little false tooth like the girl did ? |
2 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
3 | ‘ Why do n't I just wear a bag over my head ? ’ she asked . |
4 | So why do n't you just run a middle peasant economy but take what you need from everybody else ? |
5 | Why do n't you just put a rope across it there then , walk across the rope . |
6 | Why do n't you just put a line through it . |
7 | Why do n't you just take a case of it , one of those cases home , one of the empty empty cases ? |
8 | ‘ Why does n't he just wear a cocktail dress ? ’ asks Richard . |