Example sentences of "[adv] do [adv] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | she said who do you pay the bill to ? , to I says the post office , well do n't they pay you for having their telephone |
2 | Well do n't they do it ? |
3 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
4 | Why do n't they do something about it ? |
5 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
6 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
7 | Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ? |
8 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
9 | And if they want more — of whatever it is — why do n't they tell us ? ’ |
10 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
11 | Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile . |
12 | ‘ Why do n't they give us parachutes , for God 's sake ? |
13 | Why do n't they show us all Britain ? |
14 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
15 | ‘ Why do n't they improve themselves ? ’ |
16 | Why do n't they collect it together then ? |
17 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
18 | Why do n't they spend it here ? |
19 | Now if the Government wish to restrict the capital borrowing that we can make , which they do anyway , why do they need to restrict , also , what we do with the results of any spending , why do n't they allow us to spend it perhaps , on the roads , that Mr would like to see built ? |
20 | The new houses are pretty standard why do n't they convert them , you know , you guarantee if you use six rolls of wa wallpaper you 'll need one to seven , something silly like that |
21 | And you could quite rightly think , Why do n't they take their turn ? |
22 | Why do n't they list them then ? |
23 | If thicker shells are really better for the snail , why do n't they have them anyway ? |
24 | Why do n't they have it right down there at that end where there 's no smoking and the little children would be right out of the way . |
25 | So why do n't manufacturers put full instructions in the leaflets and — more annoyingly — why do n't they put their full address on products or packaging , so that purchasers could at least write for more information ? |
26 | Why do n't they put it in the recycling centre ? |
27 | Why do n't they put it on the ? |