Example sentences of "why do [adv] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 — |
| 2 | Yeah why did n't they leave it open ? |
| 3 | Why did n't they give you it ? |
| 4 | ‘ If they want our co-operation why did n't they give us prior notice ? |
| 5 | Well that 's what I said why did n't they surround it a mile away . |
| 6 | Why did n't they examine my action first ? |
| 7 | ‘ Document A. That the man , who was belligerent on several occasions at first , threatening the social worker called in by the Visitor , said it was no business of theirs as it was a family matter and that the girl 's father , his own brother , had given his consent , and what more could you want , and there was no higher authority than that , and no wonder there was so much crime on the streets if the government took away the father 's power , and why did n't they do something about crime on the streets instead of invading people 's homes . |
| 8 | ‘ They wanted more details and I said it was a murder dammit and why did n't they do something about it and he said ‘ Another of those ’ and … well they must do something . |
| 9 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 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 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 22 | Why do n't they do something about it ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Perhaps they do not conclude this ; if so , why do n't they make their views known to the Secretary of State for Scotland before he approves this scheme ? |
| 26 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 27 | And if they want more — of whatever it is — why do n't they tell us ? ’ |
| 28 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 29 | Why do n't they give them the money to carry on and do all the good work they 've done , which is well worthwhile . |
| 30 | ‘ Why do n't they give us parachutes , for God 's sake ? |