Example sentences of "why do n't [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why did n't you just thrust the phone into her hand ? |
| 32 | ‘ Why did n't you just say ? ’ |
| 33 | If you were so set on helping me then why did n't you just come straight over and … ’ |
| 34 | Why did n't you just leave it in the erm inside the front player ? |
| 35 | Why did n't you just put her back into bed ! |
| 36 | Why did n't you just turn the knob ? |
| 37 | It would n't be mine , but it 's better than having a could , why did n't you just get a little false tooth like the girl did ? |
| 38 | Well why did n't you just bring the note and show it to me ? |
| 39 | ‘ Why did n't you simply ask me ? ’ she said . |
| 40 | Well why did n't you then ? |
| 41 | Why did n't you bloody tell me ? ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Mandy , why did n't you ever say anything ? ’ |
| 43 | Of course the legendary Super Champ ( why do n't they just bring it back and be done with it ) was the nearest thing to a ‘ Boogie in a matchbox ’ ( or , for that matter , why do n't Boogie ? ) and I suppose the Champ 12 forms an obvious transitional link between that and this new model . |
| 44 | ’ But why do n't they just do that ? ’ |
| 45 | Like , when they all went off and I thought well I do n't see , why do n't they just stop it . |
| 46 | why do n't they just let the stuff grow naturally ? |
| 47 | Why do n't they just take their |
| 48 | Oh well why do n't they just bring down as well you know might as well . |
| 49 | Why do n't they just throw them away ! |
| 50 | If you 've got a positive nucleus and you 've got electrons , negative particles going round it , and the two attract each other , why do n't they just all collapse together ? |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Why do n't they just print the job supplement ? |
| 53 | Why do n't we just go away for the day ? ’ |
| 54 | As Bob Hope said of the Stealth bomber , ‘ If it is supposed to be invisible to radar , why do n't we just not build it and tell the Russians it 's there ? ’ |
| 55 | ‘ She 's in such agony , ’ stormed Perdita , ‘ why do n't we just put her out of her misery ? ’ |
| 56 | And why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 57 | Why do n't we just call it New Mancunian Express and have done with it ? |
| 58 | OK , so why 's he on the cover , and why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 59 | Why do n't we just give Napoleon the keys to Berlin and have done with it ? |
| 60 | Perhaps this is a sign of Gill 's effect on me — that nowadays I can say something like , ‘ Why do n't we just take off ? ’ |