Example sentences of "why do [pers pn] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 2 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 3 | But if the speaker wished the hearer to recover these effects , why did he not simply produce the utterance in [ 33 ] ? |
| 4 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 5 | If Theo was worried about marriage settlements in the event of death " why do you not just knife your wife and have done with it ? " |