Example sentences of "[not/n't] they just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Were they ever professional , boy , did they ever work hard , well , did n't they just talk and work as if that melodrama of near separation had never happened . |
2 | Well they do n't they just sit there looking at |
3 | I mean they do n't they just make everybody worse off . |
4 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
5 | He knew it was what they wanted to do , what they had planned to do , so why did n't they just do it then ? |
6 | ’ But why do n't they just do that ? ’ |
7 | Why ca n't they just tell you ? |
8 | Could n't they just ease up a little ? |
9 | Who did n't they just throw him out ? |
10 | Why do n't they just throw them away ! |
11 | Why do n't they just print the job supplement ? |
12 | Of course the legendary Super Champ ( why do n't they just bring it back and be done with it ) was the nearest thing to a ‘ Boogie in a matchbox ’ ( or , for that matter , why do n't Boogie ? ) and I suppose the Champ 12 forms an obvious transitional link between that and this new model . |
13 | Oh well why do n't they just bring down as well you know might as well . |
14 | Do n't they just think the world of themselves ? ’ |
15 | Why , he asks , do n't they just pour the water on the floor and machine-gun it ? |
16 | Why did n't they just stop at the sea ? |
17 | Like , when they all went off and I thought well I do n't see , why do n't they just stop it . |
18 | Why could n't they just leave well alone and let pupils concentrate on the three Rs ? |
19 | And why did n't they just pad you — why did you have to put on weight specially for it ? |
20 | ‘ Could n't they just have sent us a photograph ? ’ |
21 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
22 | Ca n't they just trim them ? ’ |
23 | Why do n't they just take their |
24 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
25 | Why did n't they just dismount ? ’ |
26 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
27 | Why did n't they just cancel the whole thing ? ’ |
28 | Why could n't they just understand that she did n't want to be married and settled with umpteen kids and a mortgage up to the sky and no life to call her own ? |
29 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
30 | ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field . |