Example sentences of "why do we [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Why did we not get but I wan na do that part ! |
| 3 | Why did we not buy another younger centre half ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Why do we not offer discounts for full payment ? |
| 6 | Why do we not mimic the professionals or their caddies in other areas of the game ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Why do we not start talking about some of our successes ? |
| 9 | Why do we not hear of the Government 's estimates , even of their own proposals , never mind the MacSharry proposals ? |
| 10 | Why do we not add them to the list of axioms given above ? |
| 11 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
| 12 | Why do we not query everything , even the act of querying itself ? |
| 13 | Why do we not have his intellectual contribution to this debate ? |
| 14 | So why do we not see more Killies in dealers ' tanks ? |
| 15 | Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ? |
| 16 | Why do we not take yesterday as the causal circumstance for last night ? |