Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [pers pn] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara began to explain , but after a few moments Jenny said impatiently , " Why do n't we walk down to Moorlake and then you can show me properly ? " |
| 2 | ‘ Why do n't we go up on the moor and look for George ? ’ asked Sarah . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do n't we go over to Richard and Jane 's one evening ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't we go down to the refectory and look at it there ? |
| 5 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |
| 6 | no we do n't we go in after break |
| 7 | Do n't we ramble on about some strange things June ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 9 | ‘ Tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ rather than sit about here , why do n't we wander down to those Crystal Rooms now ? |
| 10 | So , instead of heading for the ferry port , why do n't we drive down to my little house in the Wicklow Mountains ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you stay here she 'll probably call for a dozen more rehearsals of that damn kiss — so why do n't we cut out of here for a while and go for a coffee ? |
| 12 | Why do n't we take out from access , so takes out a job number , sorry from accounts and just say take out a job number . |
| 13 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 14 | Why do n't I get back to you when I have this thing up and running ? ’ |
| 15 | Why do n't you stand up for me ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why do n't you stand up to her , Mum ? ’ asked Violet . |
| 17 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 18 | " Why do n't you go round with our Julie any more ? " |
| 19 | Although he reached an uneasy peace with the Hanoverians , Crewe held privately to his old loyalties and on his death bed he is reported to have called out to Grey : ‘ Dick , do n't you go over to them , do n't you go over to them ’ [ Clarke ] . |
| 20 | Although he reached an uneasy peace with the Hanoverians , Crewe held privately to his old loyalties and on his death bed he is reported to have called out to Grey : ‘ Dick , do n't you go over to them , do n't you go over to them ’ [ Clarke ] . |
| 21 | Well why do n't you go over to Wimborne quickly and get it off of them ? |
| 22 | ‘ Look , why do n't you go down to the bar and have a couple of drinks ? ’ |
| 23 | Why do n't you go down to the optician 's and see about it ? ’ |
| 24 | Why do n't you go down to the sea and get a blow before tea ? ’ |
| 25 | Bernard would sometimes call from London and say , ‘ Peter , why do n't you go down to New York for the day and see all the magazine editors ? ’ |
| 26 | " Why do n't you go down to the Lake Field , " he said to Nicandra , " the yearlings might amuse them . |
| 27 | ‘ If you hate it all so much , why do n't you go back to the bogs ? ’ was his retort . |
| 28 | Why do n't you go back to Gran 's ? |
| 29 | After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Why do n't you go back to the car ? ’ she said edgily . |