Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] [pers pn] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy 's black friend Yvonne puts it this way ; ‘ On the whole right , it 's the people in authority what brings that tension around , you know , 'cos the black people are thinkin' 'ow comes they not gettin' all the jobs , you know . ’ |
| 2 | But how did he how did he not get pricked ? |
| 3 | But how do we not give up ? |
| 4 | ‘ How do you not know ? |
| 5 | But how do you be really , how do you not scare yourselves from going out ? gon na return to your homes and that everything 's going to be left as it was ? |
| 6 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 7 | Why has she not spoken long ago in the right quarter ? |
| 8 | If , as Mr Bush indicated in his letter , he knew in October of Mr Frohnmayer 's ‘ wish to step aside ’ , why has he not nominated a successor ? |
| 9 | He has increased funds to the Arts Council , so why has he not unfrozen the acquisition grants ? |
| 10 | ‘ If he knows , why has he not moved ? ’ |
| 11 | Why has it not caught on ? |
| 12 | Why has it not come ? |
| 13 | So why has it not led to a rise in conviction rates ? |
| 14 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
| 15 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 16 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
| 17 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 18 | If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ? |
| 19 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 20 | Then : ‘ Why did they not ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | Why did they not interfere with catapults ? — these did more injury than other weapons . ’ |
| 22 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
| 25 | Why did they not act boldly like the Russians ? |
| 26 | For the lord 's sake , then , why did they not put in some repairs ? |
| 27 | Why did they not receive greater support ? |
| 28 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
| 29 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
| 30 | But why did she not write ? |