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 ? ’
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