Example sentences of "why had not [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had n't somebody checked that they had n't left their spears for all and sundry to trip over ? |
| 2 | Why had n't they faded with time ? |
| 3 | Why had n't they gone into all this at the time , really thrashed it out ? |
| 4 | Why had n't they given it to her ? |
| 5 | Churchill was a particular hothead and , after all , if the Cabinet did n't condone what had happened , why had n't they authorised an enquiry ? |
| 6 | Why had n't they signalled they were coming in ? |
| 7 | Why had n't they told him ? |
| 8 | Why had n't I guessed ? |
| 9 | I could surely have bluffed out the running ; it was the standing under the rod that was the important part , the critical part ; why had n't I realised that ? |
| 10 | Why had n't I asked Flora ? |
| 11 | Why had n't I gone to gentler old Winston 's place instead . |
| 12 | Why had n't I felt them when we were pressed together ? |
| 13 | And why had n't I felt that shock of surprise I should have felt ? |
| 14 | Now why had n't I thought of it before ! |
| 15 | Why , why had n't I told Toby about it long ago ? |
| 16 | Why had n't I told him myself ? |
| 17 | Why had n't I taken Dottie at her word ? |
| 18 | Why had n't he waited , at least until her father was home ? |
| 19 | Why had n't he killed her too ? |
| 20 | Why had n't he seen through it ? |
| 21 | Why had n't he wanted to stay ? |
| 22 | Why had n't he written to me ? |
| 23 | Why had n't he become a Sikh or a Hasidic jew ? |
| 24 | Why had n't he stayed out of it ? |
| 25 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 26 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 27 | Then why had n't he said ? |
| 28 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 29 | Why had n't he got ? |
| 30 | Why had n't he shown himself ? |