Example sentences of "why [verb] n't [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why did n't you keep it in the box ? |
| 32 | Anyway , it did win , and the wife was saying why did n't you bet it , why did n't you back it to win ! |
| 33 | Why did n't you back it to win . |
| 34 | ‘ Then why did n't you hang it over the side of the punt ? ’ |
| 35 | 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 ? |
| 36 | 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 ? |
| 37 | So why do n't they admit it ? |
| 38 | Why do n't they collect it together then ? |
| 39 | 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 ? |
| 40 | Why do n't they spend it here ? |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Why do n't they put it in the recycling centre ? |
| 43 | Why do n't they put it on the ? |
| 44 | Why do n't we do it ? ’ and we all agreed rather tentatively that it might be a good idea . |
| 45 | ‘ So why do n't we do it ? |
| 46 | This is a great idea — why do n't we do it more often . |
| 47 | So what we 're doing is we then send them this , why do n't we pass it out to the other piece of the group ? |
| 48 | Why do n't we leave it at that ? ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Well , why do n't we leave it open ? |
| 50 | Why do n't we share it ? |
| 51 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 52 | So why do n't we take it from there ? ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Why do n't we smash it up ? ’ |
| 54 | Yes , why do n't we call it a BLACK HOLE . |
| 55 | ‘ Bobo marched across the room , floorboards squeaking ’ , says Miles , ‘ and said ‘ why do n't we call it It ? ’ ’ |
| 56 | I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with . |
| 57 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 58 | ‘ Why do n't yer chuck it down in the dustbin ? ’ he suggested . |
| 59 | Why do n't you throw it in the dustbin ? |
| 60 | Why do n't you give it up , Karen ? |