Example sentences of "can not they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 2 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
| 3 | Why ca n't they just tell you ? |
| 4 | Ca n't they just trim them ? ’ |
| 5 | Er , why ca n't they just look at , er do a means test for child benefit ? |
| 6 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 7 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
| 8 | Ca n't they even navigate , for fuck 's sake ? |
| 9 | why ca n't they now decrease that , and er start doing advertising ? |
| 10 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |