Example sentences of "why do [not/n't] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why do n't they do something ? ’ |
| 2 | Why do n't they do something about it ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | And if they want more — of whatever it is — why do n't they tell us ? ’ |
| 8 | I only appear on infrequent occasions , so why do n't they think I 'm just a family friend ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Why do n't they give us parachutes , for God 's sake ? |
| 11 | Why do n't they show us all Britain ? |
| 12 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why do n't they improve themselves ? ’ |
| 14 | Why do n't they collect it together then ? |
| 15 | Since they evidently have a rate control " knob " on their " stroboscope " , why do n't they turn it permanently to maximum , thereby keeping their perception of the world at its most acute , all the time , to meet any emergency ? |
| 16 | Why do n't they spend it here ? |
| 17 | Now if the Government wish to restrict the capital borrowing that we can make , which they do anyway , why do they need to restrict , also , what we do with the results of any spending , why do n't they allow us to spend it perhaps , on the roads , that Mr would like to see built ? |
| 18 | The new houses are pretty standard why do n't they convert them , you know , you guarantee if you use six rolls of wa wallpaper you 'll need one to seven , something silly like that |
| 19 | And you could quite rightly think , Why do n't they take their turn ? |
| 20 | Why do n't they list them then ? |
| 21 | If thicker shells are really better for the snail , why do n't they have them anyway ? |
| 22 | Why do n't they have it right down there at that end where there 's no smoking and the little children would be right out of the way . |
| 23 | So why do n't manufacturers put full instructions in the leaflets and — more annoyingly — why do n't they put their full address on products or packaging , so that purchasers could at least write for more information ? |
| 24 | Why do n't they put it in the recycling centre ? |
| 25 | Why do n't they put it on the ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why do n't we drag your errant husband out of the bar , Elaine , and go to the Kingsley Club for a drink ? ’ |
| 27 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
| 28 | So when the boys and I met and they said over tea I th , well why do n't we do something about a love affair , it just seemed right . |
| 29 | The question is not what can we do about the greenhouse effect , but why do n't we do anything ? |
| 30 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |