Example sentences of "[Wh adv] do n't [pers pn] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
| 4 | Why do n't they collect it together then ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Why do n't they spend it here ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why do n't they put it in the recycling centre ? |
| 9 | Why do n't they put it on the ? |
| 10 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |
| 11 | ‘ So why do n't we do it ? |
| 12 | This is a great idea — why do n't we do it more often . |
| 13 | So what we 're doing is we then send them this , why do n't we pass it out to the other piece of the group ? |
| 14 | Why do n't we leave it at that ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , why do n't we leave it open ? |
| 16 | Why do n't we share it ? |
| 17 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 18 | So why do n't we take it from there ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why do n't we smash it up ? ’ |
| 20 | Yes , why do n't we call it a BLACK HOLE . |
| 21 | ‘ Bobo marched across the room , floorboards squeaking ’ , says Miles , ‘ and said ‘ why do n't we call it It ? ’ ’ |
| 22 | I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with . |
| 23 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do n't yer chuck it down in the dustbin ? ’ he suggested . |
| 25 | Why do n't you throw it in the dustbin ? |
| 26 | Why do n't you give it up , Karen ? |
| 27 | Well why do n't you answer it up here ? |
| 28 | Why do n't you wear it ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't you open it and see ? ’ |
| 30 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |