Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb base] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Well erm I said if you want me to do it let me know and I 'll come and do it but just make well she 's cancelled before because once she had n't got the money and
2 Yeah , but then do n't they have to get permission ?
3 But why do n't they want the stable lads to know what weights ?
4 But why do n't they do something ? ’
5 I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ?
6 The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ?
7 ‘ Yes , I think so , but why do n't we take my car ? ’
8 ‘ I 'm sorry you 're miffed because I do n't want to sell and I 'm sorry our views on the nuisance value of my workshop conflict , ’ Ashley said , ‘ but why do n't we wait until the villas are occupied and take a vote among the owners ?
9 But why do n't we know anything about them ?
10 But why do n't I tell him myself ?
11 ‘ I 'll admit anything you like — but why do n't you start using your brains for a change ? ’ he told her roughly .
12 Your worse than Albert , but why do n't you go to front of bloody paper .
13 But why do n't you want to go to Gran 's ? ’
14 But why do n't you wear your hair down ?
15 But why do n't you allow them to run a similar course there because it would mean more student members
16 But why do n't you let me cook it ?
17 But why do n't you use the goddam bog ? ’ someone says .
18 But why do n't you use the other one ?
19 But why have n't you brought him with you , Miss Maylie ? ’
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