Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh adv] [vb base] n't [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've nothing to do until Monday , so why do n't you stay over , Robert ? |
| 32 | So why do n't you admit supplying and then John can stay out and look after the kids , like ? ’ |
| 33 | So why do n't you do as I say and drop it ? |
| 34 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 35 | ‘ So why do n't you do just that ? ’ said Harvey . |
| 36 | ‘ So why do n't you do the ordering for tomorrow as usual ? |
| 37 | ‘ So why do n't you like Janice ? |
| 38 | Look , we 're a bit quiet at the moment , so why do n't you take an extra ten minutes on your tea break and go and see her ? |
| 39 | I 'll do afternoon surgery , so why do n't you take a few hours off ? |
| 40 | So why do n't you try listening for a change ? ’ |
| 41 | Mike tells me that there is a remote possibility we may have misjudged you after all , so why do n't you try spinning me this fairy-tale ? ’ |
| 42 | How you are going to get him there is not so obvious — so why do n't you accept him as he is and with the surroundings he now loves ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ So why do n't you ask him if we can have it ? |
| 44 | Bathrooms do n't have to be purely functional , so why do n't you put up a shelf , and fill it with plants . |
| 45 | So why do n't you put an end to it here and now and tell me the truth ? |
| 46 | ‘ So why do n't you sell it down-Level and solve all your problems ? ’ |
| 47 | So why do n't you see more of the range out there on the British apron ? |
| 48 | ‘ So why do n't you come along ? |
| 49 | So why do n't you use your common sense and show them some respect ? |
| 50 | So why do n't I do it for you ? |
| 51 | It 's all pretty confusing cos Colin ai n't a cat or nothing , so why do n't he use the toilet ? |
| 52 | still goes at twenty past five so why do n't she go at six when we do ? |
| 53 | ‘ First of all why do n't you start by telling me just exactly what it was that upset you today ? ’ |
| 54 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 55 | Besides , you know , it 's too trivial , there 's too many important things , like why have n't you got the special offer on display , to even bother to tell why you 're not , why you 're not performing or if anything is n't going right . |
| 56 | We 're very obsessed with things called viewing figures in television and I worked out quite simply that if everybody among the eleven million people who are supposed to view Keeping Up Appearances every Sunday , popped a penny into a money box for Save The Children Fund one Sunday night , that would raise a hundred and ten thousand pounds within an hour , now why do n't we get going and encourage people to do that . |
| 57 | Now why do n't I pour us a drink ? ’ |
| 58 | " Now why do n't you tell us about this Irish Republican Army , " Tom Rooney said to the gunman . |
| 59 | Now why do n't you take your croaky-faced mate and sod off back to boring boxed set land and bother the world no more ! |
| 60 | Now why do n't you take these two little boys home ? |