Example sentences of "why do [adv] [pers pn] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Caro , for God 's sake , if you have n't got anything better to do why do n't you help us ? |
| 2 | I do , clearly , do n't I. Then why do n't I like it ? ) |
| 3 | Why did n't we pick him up ? |
| 4 | Well why did n't we see it ? |
| 5 | Margaret panicked , she 'd got the wrong number , the wrong place , the wrong advertisement , why did n't they get off the line , why did n't they leave her — |
| 6 | Yeah why did n't they leave it open ? |
| 7 | Why did n't they give you it ? |
| 8 | ‘ If they want our co-operation why did n't they give us prior notice ? |
| 9 | Well that 's what I said why did n't they surround it a mile away . |
| 10 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 11 | Why did n't they put it into something solid and endurable ? |
| 12 | ‘ Why did n't they tie you up or guard you or something ? ’ |
| 13 | Why did n't they call it ‘ Psychology for People ’ ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why did n't they let me take Drama ? |
| 15 | Well why did n't they ask us then ? |
| 16 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 17 | Why did n't they supply you with an adaptor ? |
| 18 | Why did n't they kill me off ? |
| 19 | ‘ Then why did n't they kill you immediately ? ’ |
| 20 | Why did n't they join him ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why did n't I marry her ! |
| 22 | ‘ Why did n't I meet them ? ’ |
| 23 | Why did n't I tell him that I had an absolutely unbreakable date ? |
| 24 | So why did n't I tell you ? |
| 25 | If anybody used it , why did n't I see them ? ’ |
| 26 | Why did n't I pick him up on that ? |
| 27 | Why did n't she want you to work there ? |
| 28 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 29 | Well why did n't she tell them |
| 30 | Why did n't she tell me she was going to lie down ? ’ |