Example sentences of "[Wh adv] do [pers pn] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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1 | But how did he how did he not get pricked ? |
2 | But how do we not give up ? |
3 | ‘ How do you not know ? |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | Why did we not just stop and camp ? |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
8 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | 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 ? ) |
11 | Then : ‘ Why did they not ? ’ he asked . |
12 | Why did they not interfere with catapults ? — these did more injury than other weapons . ’ |
13 | Why did they not give tea parties for their own men ( if they were able to find any ) ? |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | Why did they not give her toys to play with ? |
16 | Why did they not act boldly like the Russians ? |
17 | For the lord 's sake , then , why did they not put in some repairs ? |
18 | Why did they not receive greater support ? |
19 | Then why did she not agree to it ? |
20 | Why did she not experience the usual terror at being shut in a small enclosed space ? |
21 | But why did she not write ? |
22 | Why did I not think of that , then ? |
23 | Even so , you will wonder , why did I not respond ? |
24 | Why did I not die there and then ? |
25 | ‘ Why did you not call the fire brigade ? ’ he asked . |
26 | Why did you not stop me ? ’ |
27 | And , if so , why did you not send Seton back to search for his master or send members of your own household to look for him ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Why did you not mention this before ? ’ |
30 | ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’ |