Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [Wh adv] do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Now he said right , he said now why do n't you |
| 3 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 4 | I said well why do n't you se she said well you 've got ta come and pick the books , I said well I ca n't come all that way , I said it 's hardly worth my while , I said why do n't |
| 5 | I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When , when you 'd gone Lindsey said well why did n't you take me . |