Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Peggy says well why should n't they walk out , if they 're that old and they 're do n't li why should n't they get up and walk out ? |
| 2 | Fair enough , she thought , why should n't he work on and ‘ settle the young gentleman ’ ? |
| 3 | And then , to her astonishment , she heard herself say , ‘ Should n't you go upstairs and see how Janice is ? |
| 4 | Why could n't he walk off and leave the Doctor ? |
| 5 | Why could n't he rise up and assert himself , shout at her , curse her , take off a great belt with a brazen buckle on it , like some muscular labouring man and beat hell out of her ? |
| 6 | Yes , what about her mother ; why could n't she go down and take a turn ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but ought n't we to go out and calm the troops or something ? ’ |
| 8 | Well ca n't we go down and |
| 9 | ‘ Why ca n't you go away and get some style ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why ca n't you sit up and look about you ? ’ |
| 11 | Why ca n't you get on and eat your lunch ? |
| 12 | and if these people , who are just like you , write in and have their letters printed here , why ca n't you write in and receive the same treatment ? |
| 13 | ‘ Wo n't they wake up and be angry ? ’ |
| 14 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 15 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 16 | And now , wo n't you come back and enjoy the delicious lunch your mother is providing for us ? |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , caro why can not we go on as we are ? ’ |