Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb base] [not/n't] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ( When do n't they ? ! ) |
2 | When do n't I want to go to bed with her ? |
3 | Yeah , well I say er I mean obviously Pauline remembers it from some when do n't she ? |
4 | Why do n't they look ? |
5 | Donald , any question that starts out ‘ Why do n't they — ’ the answer is always ‘ Money ’ … |
6 | Why do n't they carve like Greeks ? |
7 | Why do n't they check out Brecht or Oscar Wilde pioneers . |
8 | Why do n't they run on the beach ? |
9 | If thicker shells are really better for the snail , why do n't they have them anyway ? |
10 | If this is true , then why do n't they roll right at the surface like 80 per cent of other bream ? |
11 | Why do n't they move or speak ? ’ |
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 | To cut a long story short , next time music retailers start moaning about the recession why do n't they take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves who actually feeds them ? |
14 | Why do n't they have shoeshine boys any more ? ’ |
15 | If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ? |
16 | ‘ Why do n't they get a job ? ' |
17 | ‘ Why do n't they stop having so many children ? ' |
18 | ‘ Why do n't they take a course of adult education ? |
19 | Why do n't they make adequate provision for their children ? ' |
20 | ‘ Why do n't they improve themselves ? ’ |
21 | ‘ Why do n't they have mouseholes ? |
22 | 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 ? |
23 | ‘ Why do n't they come out ? ’ |
24 | Why do n't they have a drummer up there and a bass player instead of programming everything ? ’ |
25 | Why do n't they make an industry of it here ? |
26 | 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 ? |
27 | So why is there not somebody responsible security say why why do n't they go out there and stop it ? |
28 | Why do n't they put it in the recycling centre ? |
29 | Why do n't they teach English as English , that 's what I want to know . |
30 | Facing people with the budgets of the poor often prompts the response , " why do n't they make soup ? " or " Fresh vegetables are cheaper than fish fingers . " |