Example sentences of "[Wh adv] do [adv] [pers pn] [verb] your " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't I find your house ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did n't you want your brother to hear what you said ? ’ |
| 3 | Why did n't you have your photo took like that with them ? |
| 4 | Why did n't you keep your nine , two nines your jack and put your king ace in the box ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why did n't you ask your grandfather ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why did n't you pursue your art ? ’ |
| 7 | cos it was all fresh cos he was gon na get meat tomorrow and the following day , so I says to him I says well why did n't you use your cheque book ? , he says oh I never thought of that he says , cos it takes a few days to get it , he do n't know with a cheque book |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't we drag your errant husband out of the bar , Elaine , and go to the Kingsley Club for a drink ? ’ |
| 9 | Why do n't you wash your hands in the bathroom ? |
| 10 | ‘ But why do n't you wear your hair down ? |
| 11 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 12 | Why do n't you move your body . |
| 13 | Why do n't you swallow your diamonds and shut up ? |
| 14 | Why do n't you pull your jumper down Geoff ? |
| 15 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 16 | At times he openly despised his boys ; one , who had a passion for candy bars , he nicknamed ‘ Munchpot ’ : ‘ Why do n't you justify your existence , Munchpot , ’ Bobby Hunt heard him say , ‘ and empty the wastepaper basket . ’ |
| 17 | tip your coke , why do n't you tip your coffee back in there and then there 's this coke |
| 18 | ‘ Why do n't you oil your brains ? |
| 19 | I du n no Catherine why do n't you shut your mouth for once . |
| 20 | Why do n't you tidy your things up a little bit ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why do n't you keep your mouth shut ? ’ said Sergeant Comstock , with deep and bitter resignation , and reached for the boat-hook they 'd brought with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't you keep your nose out of this ? ’ he demanded furiously . |
| 23 | Why do n't you read your dictionaries ? |
| 24 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 25 | Well why do n't you have your cholesterol tested . |
| 26 | ‘ And why do n't you know your lines ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why do n't you get your head down now , Sid ? |
| 28 | Why do n't you get your people … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't you get your hair cut for Christmas ? ’ |
| 30 | There 's the classic story of erm at the time of the Cuban missile crisis er Nikita Khrushchev in nineteen sixty two said to Jack Kennedy hey you want us to get our missiles out of Cuba , why do n't you get your missiles out of Turkey ? |