Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] not they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I , he says he did n't , I mean , since she 's had the chop , but between having the first and then having the twins , the second , she went back to work then at the Building Society , so she 's got a cheaper mortgage , so why did n't they pay some off then ? |
| 2 | So why did n't they do away with it altogether , or at least bury thing . ’ |
| 3 | You know , because this , were they slacking in some way , why did n't they get twenty ? |
| 4 | Why do n't they make adequate provision for their children ? ' |
| 5 | If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ? |
| 6 | If bats are capable of boosting their sampling rates to 200 pulses per second , why do n't they keep this up all the time ? |
| 7 | I says to Tommy , why do n't they buy one of them big caravans , I said , because every time they get |
| 8 | If programmers need all that RAM why do n't they use Expanded or Extended memory so that they can leave a fair slice of the base memory to the system ? |
| 9 | So I say , if it 's good for one pensioner to that , why do n't they allow other pensioners to pay it ? |
| 10 | Why do n't they civilianise chief constables could be a job for you in Gaza . |
| 11 | Three months on I er I 'm even mor angry , appalled and disgusted at the hypocrisy of the members opposite because , if they really care about the unemployed , why do n't they support this Scheme ? |
| 12 | Why do n't they teach English as English , that 's what I want to know . |
| 13 | Why do n't they put all the leaders of all the countries up in the air |