Example sentences of "[Wh adv] do [pers pn] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 But how do we not give up ?
2 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 ?
3 How do you not know ?
4 When do I not pay SSP ?
5 When do I not pay SSP ?
6 Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ?
7 Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ?
8 Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ?
9 If the purpose is to protect the individual , why do we not sign the European social charter , as every other country is prepared to do ?
10 Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ?
11 Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ?
12 Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ?
13 Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ?
14 Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ?
15 Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ?
16 So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ?
17 Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ?
18 Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ?
19 It is clear from thinking in Brussels and Paris that their views on international trade owe more to Friedrich List than to Adam Smith , although it is always surprising that they bemoan their countries ' so-called tutelage to the United States and at the same time attack the liberal economic policies which lie at the root of American power : why do they not realise that they should adopt economic liberalism as well ?
20 How and why do British people participate in politics — and why do they not participate ?
21 Why t why c why do they not communicate upwards and I think essentially people it in subordinate positions are about managing the impressions others have of them and tend to believe the notion , no matter how true it is , that er that organisations may have a shoot the messenger philosophy , yes ?
22 Why do they not have the guts to tackle their own Government about cuts in services ?
23 Why do the Government still refuse to endorse the principle of freedom of information , and why do they not agree to support the freedom of information Bill which will shortly be brought before the House ?
24 Why do you not want our own place ? ’
25 Why do you not want to tell your parents ? ’
26 Why do you not realise that it has to be stopped , and that you 're the ones to do it !
27 Why do you not recognize us ?
28 Why do you not suggest that brides , or their mothers , make their dresses ?
29 ‘ Then why do you not go to bed ? ’
30 Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ?
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